New South Wales



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Sydney Town Hall
Sydney Town Hall, Hill & Son, London, 1886-1889; opened 1890
5 manuals, 127 speaking stops, barker lever & tubular-pneumatic action
Restored 1972-1982 Roger H. Pogson, Sydney
Case designed by Arthur George Hill
The world's largest 19th century organ, surviving largely unaltered.
32' Double Open Diapason Metal case pipes (central tower) as seen from the console [KH]
Photos of restored organ façade and console [PdL]
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, Hill & Son, London, 1866
The case was designed by Hill & Son based upon a concept of the architect of the building E.T. Blacket (Rushworth, Historic Organs of NSW, p.268). The original facade pipe decoration can be attributed to the London decorator Charles Blackmore and was restored by Marc Nobel and Christine Holmes in 1998. Close up view of stencilled pipes [PdL]
A History of the Cathedral Organs

Bodalla, All Saints
All Saints Anglican Church, Bodalla
Henry Willis & Sons, London 1882
2 manuals, 10 speaking stops, mechanical action
Restored 1991 Peter D.G. Jewkes, Sydney
Windsor, St Matthew
St Matthew's Anglican Church, Windsor
Johnson & Kinloch, Sydney, 1840
2 manuals, 10 speaking stops, mechanical action
Restored 1986 Knud Smenge, Melbourne
Arcadia
Benedictine Monastery Chapel, Arcadia
Thomas Atterton, Leighton Buzzard, England, 1892
2 manuals, 10 speaking stops, mechanical action
Restored S.J. Laurie, Melbourne
Annandale, Hunter-Baillie Presbyterian Church Hunter-Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church, Annandale
Hill & Son, London, 1890; case by Arthur George Hill
3 manuals, 24 speaking stops, mechanical action
Partially restored 1997 Peter D.G. Jewkes, Sydney
Incorporates Australia's finest church organ case [PdL]

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Neutral Bay, St John
St John's Uniting Church, Neutral Bay
Charles Richardson, Sydney, 1912
2 manuals, 10 speaking stops, mechanical & tubular-pneumatic action
Restored 1993 Peter D.G. Jewkes, Sydney

Burwood, St Paul's
St Paul's Anglican Church, Burwood
William Davidson, Sydney, 1890
3 manuals, 28 speaking stops, mechanical action
The largest mechanical action organ to survive from a 19th century Australian organbuilder [PdL]

Sydney, St Philip

St Philip's Anglican Church, Church Hill, Sydney
J.W. Walker & Sons, 1873
2 manuals, 27 speaking stops, mechanical action
Restored 1987 Pitchford & Garside [PdL]
St Saviour's Anglican Cathedral, Goulburn
Forster & Andrews, Hull, 1884
3 manuals, 37 speaking stops, tub. pn action
Restored 1978-9 Brown and Arkley (action electrified) [PdL]

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Goulburn, SS Peter & Paul

SS Peter & Paul's RC Old Cathedral, Goulburn
Hill & Son, London, 1890
3 manuals, 28 speaking stops, barker lever & mechanical action [PdL] See documentation.

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St Paul's Lutheran Church, Stanley Street, Sydney
E.F. Walcker & Cie., Ludwigsburg, Germany, 1887, Op. 498.
2 manuals 8 speaking stops, 3 couplers, mechanical action
Restored and installed here 1986 Pitchford & Garside [KH]
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Mosman
Forster & Andrews (1882), 7 speaking stops,
RH Pogson restored it in 1983. [PdL]

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Christ Church Anglican Church, Bong Bong
Samuel Parsons, London, circa 1850
1 manual, 5 stops, no pedals, GG compass, mechanical action [KH]
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Manly
Peter Conacher & Co., Huddersfield, 1898, ex St Nicholas' Congregational Church, Ipswich, UK.
2 manuals, 21 speaking stops, 3 couplers, mechanical action
Restored and installed here 1977 Pitchford & Garside [KH]
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Kincoppal, Rose Bay
Théodore Puget et fils, Toulouse, France, 1890;
installed present location circa 1903
Rebuilt 1960 S.T. Noad & Son, Sydney
2 manuals, 20 stops, 8 couplers, electro-pneumatic action [PdeL]
St Andrew's Scots' Church (Presbyterian), Rose Bay
Hill & Son, London, 1884, job no 1890
2 manuals, 18 speaking stops, 3 couplers mechanical action
Restored 1975 Pitchford & Garside [KH]
Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga. War Memorial Chapel
Ronald Sharp, Sydney, 1965
3 manuals, 31 speaking stops, 1 coupler, mechanical action [KH]
Taylor Memorial Uniting Church, Inverell
Whitehouse Bros., Brisbane, 1927 and 1957
2 manuals, 15 stops, 7 couplers, electro-pneumatic action [KH]
Pitt St Uniting Church, Sydney
Hill & Son, 1910, restored 1982-1985 by Pitchford & Garside
3 manuals, 31 speaking stops, tubular-pneumatic action [KH]
Convent of Mercy, Singleton
John Wheildon ca. 1850
1 manual, 5 speaking stops, mechanical action
Restored Pipe Organ Reconstructions Ltd 1998 [PdeL]

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