Victoria

Melbourne was the home of the organbuilder George Fincham (1828-1910).

Some of George Fincham's organs

	Grand Organ, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1880 4 manuals, 70 speaking stops, barker lever action Destroyed 1948/1965 Fincham's magnum opus, the instrument incorporated a 32ft facade and detached terraced console
	St Mary Star-of-the-Sea Catholic Church, West Melbourne, 1898-1900 3 manuals, 38 speaking stops, tubular-pneumatic action Restored 1992-1993 South Island Organ Company, Timaru, New Zealand This is the largest indigenously built organ to survive intact Gallery of photos [PdL]
	Trinity Uniting Church, Brighton, 1884 2 manuals, 15 speaking stops, mechanical action Restored 1995-1996 South Island Organ Company, Timaru, New Zealand
	St Ignatius' Catholic Church, Richmond, 1874 2 manuals, 20 speaking stops, mechanical action Organ exhibited in 1875 Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition
	St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, 1892 3 manuals, 49 speaking stops, electro-pneumatic action Destroyed by fire 7 April 1991
	St George's Anglican Church, Queenscliff, Victoria George Fincham 1871; built for St Philip's Church, Collingwood 1 manual, 6 speaking stops, mechanical action Restored & installed 1999 Australian Pipe Organs; pipe decorations and casework restored by Marc Nobel & Christine Holmes [JM]

Other Victorian organs

	Scotch College, Assembly Hall, Hawthorn. Organ removed from Assembly Hall (Scots Church), Sydney. Hill, Norman & Beard 1929-30. Restored South Island Organ Co. and Peter D G Jewkes (Sydney) 2004. 3m, 50 speaking stops, 18 couplers, el.pn.[MQ]
	St John's Anglican Church, Toorak Hill and Son, London, 1913 3 manuals, 37 speaking stops, electro-pneumatic action (originally tubular-pneumatic) Restored 1994-1996 Peter D.G. Jewkes, Sydney Facade pipe decoration by Marc Nobel
	St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Melbourne T.C. Lewis, Brixton, London, 1891 4 manuals, 53 speaking stops, electro-pneumatic action (originally tubular-pneumatic) Restored 1989-1990 Harrison & Harrison, Durham, England Facade pipe decoration by Marc Nobel after a design by Lyon, Wells, Cottier & Company
	Melbourne Town Hall Hill & Son, London, 1870-1872 4 manuals, 66 speaking stops, barker lever & mechanical action Rebuilt 1904-1906, Ingram & Co, England. Destroyed by fire, 1925 William Hill's final magnum opus
	Melbourne Town Hall Hill, Norman & Beard, London & Melbourne, 1927-1929 4 manuals, 110 speaking stops, electro-pneumatic action The largest new concert organ built in the British Empire during the interwar period Console [JM] See also the Schantz rebuild
	Sacre Coeur Convent Chapel, Glen Iris Merklin & Cie, Paris & Lyon 1889, built for St Joseph's Convent, Marseilles, France and installed at Glen Iris in 1905 by George Fincham & Son. 2 manuals, 10 speaking stops, tracker action, reversed console. [PdL] Click on thumbnail at left to access gallery of photos
	Christ Church Anglican Church, Hamilton Casson's Patent Organ Co, London, 1892 for the residence of The Hon. William Winter-Irving, Armadale (later rebuilt) 2 manuals, 24 speaking stops, electro-pneumatic action Incorporates Australia's first narrow-scaled string stops
	St Mark's Catholic Church, Fawkner Alfred Fuller, Kew, 1888 for the Congregational Church, Ballarat 2 manuals, 17 speaking stops, mechanical action Restored 1985 Marc Nobel, Melbourne
	St Linus' Anglican Church, Merlynston James Moyle, Prahran, ca.1855 1 manual, 4 speaking stops, mechanical action Restored 1985 George Fincham & Sons, Melbourne The first organ built in Victoria to survive
	Uniting Church, Long Gully, Bendigo Alfred Fuller, Kew, 1992 2 manuals, 15 speaking stops, mechanical action Restored 1982 S.J. Laurie [SC]
	St Mark's Anglican Church, Fitzroy Harrison & Harrison, Durham, 1938; built for St Luke's Church, Cowley, Oxford, UK 2 manuals, 14 speaking stops, 4 couplers, tubular-pneumatic action Restored & installed 1999 Peter D.G. Jewkes Pty Ltd [PJ]
	St Patrick's Catholic Church, Mentone, Victoria Frederick W. Nicholson, Bradford, 1862; built for Independent Church, Prahran, Victoria Rebuilt & installed 1999 Pipe Organ Reconstructions with second duplicate case and new console 2 manuals, 24 speaking stops, 5 couplers, electro-pneumatic action [JM]
	Performing Arts Studio Wesley College Glen Waverley Campus Hill & Son 1879 (job no 1711) Restored & installed 2002-3 South Island Organ Company 2 manuals, 9 ranks, 3 couplers, mechanical action [JM] Photo of keyboards