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St John's Presbyterian Church & Frederick Taylor Pipe Organ

Location Spence Street,, WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280 - Property No B4570 File Number B4570 Level Regional

[1/1] B4570 St John's Presbyterian

Statement of Significance

A prominently sited Gothic church designed by Warrnambool architect Andrew Kerr and opened in 1875, comprising a six-bay nave erected above a schoolroom, and transepts added in 1885. The main facade includes a five-light traceried window and tall buttressed tower to the south-west, and is striking, if somewhat infelicitous in appearance. The church was internally rebuilt in 1920-22 following a fire.
Classified: 18/05/1989
Organ Statement of Significance:
What is significant? The pipework, windchests, wind system, console case and casework of the pipe organ built 1925
How is it significant? The organ is significant for historic and aesthetic reasons at a regional level
Why is it significant? The pipe organ is significant for the following reasons:
It retains all its original pipework
It retains its original blackwood casework designed by H.H. Kemp, architect
It retains all of its original windchests, building frame and swell box
It is the largest example of Frederick Taylor's work to remain tonally unaltered.
Classified: 29/01/2007