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Christ Anglican Church & Organ

Location Grey Street, HAMILTON VIC 3460 - Property No B1471 File Number B1471 Level State

[1/3] B1471 Christ Church [2/3] B1471 Christ Anglican Church & [3/3] B1471 Christ Church Organ

Statement of Significance

Church Statement of Significance:
A church whose commanding spire is an important component of the Hamilton landscape. The design was by the Ballarat architect H R Caselli in an Early English Gothic idiom, and the church was opened in 1878. The interior nave walls, unusually, have been left in unplastered basalt, and a chancel has been added in 1956-57 designed by G S Richards of Ballarat.
Church Classified 26.5.88
Reviewed 26/5/88
Revised: Classified Local 3/8/98

Organ Statement of Significance: A two-manual organ, originally of 14 stops, built in 1892 by the Casson's Patent Organ Company, London, for the residence of the Hon. William Winter-Irving, Toorak and installed at Hamilton about 1901. While the organ was rebuilt in 1957 by Hill, Norman & Beard who introduced a new console, action and organ case, all of the original pipework survives. The instrument is of particular interest for its imitative string stops, thought to have been voiced for Casson at the time, the first known examples of such stops in the country; and also for its floridly decorated facade pipes, among the most elaborate to be found in Australia.

Of state significance. Organ Classified 19.8.92