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67401

Alan Sumner Stained Glass- Uniting Church

Cnr Lower Heidelberg Road and King Street,, IVANHOE EAST VIC 3079 - Property No B6517

Stained Glass "Scenes from Life & Ministry of Christ". The four "4-panel" sections of the South Wall and the windows now installed in the porch are the major featues of the rather unattractive and poorly constructed (yet apparently much cared for) cream brick building (1961). In toto they represent works created by the artist over a period of more than 3 decades and during several when the art of stained glass in Austrlia had sunk into decline. On reviewing them recently ... more

B6517

Regional
193849

George Fincham & Sons Pipe Organ - St Andrew's Uniting Church

Lyons Street,, CRESSY VIC 3322 - Property No B7359

The pipework, action, windchests, wind system, console and casework of the pipe organ built in 1947. The organ is significant for historic and aesthetic reasons at a regional level The organ is significant for the following reasons: -- It retains its original console, mechanisms and wind system -- It retains its original casework -- It retains all of its original pipework -- Its tonal design unusually focusses upon colourful unison sounds -- It is one of the ... more

B7359

Regional
 

Roberts Organ - Uniting Church

Balwyn Road,, CANTERBURY VIC 3126 - Property No B6217

A two-manual organ of 18 stops built in 1929 by W L Roberts and one of the few examples of his work to remain intact. The focal point of the building, the instrument incorporates the pipework from an organ built in 1889 by George Fincham for the residence of S Stokes, Brighton and retains its 1929 tonal scheme, attractive oak case and detached drawknob console. Classified: 20/03/1991

B6217

State
175674

George Fincham Pipe Organ - Uniting Church

Kangaroo Road,, HUGHESDALE VIC 3166 - Property No B7365

The pipe organ built in 1868 by George Fincham, of Richmond, for Christ Church Anglican Church, Warrnambool was the earliest known pipe organ in western Victoria, west of Ballarat and Geelong. It was moved to the Congregational Church, Warrnambool in 1891 and to its present location in 1940. The instrument is significant as the second earliest Fincham instrument to survive essentially intact. The lower Gothic casework incorporates unusual trefoil arcading, this extending across the ... more

B7365

Regional
 

Courcelle Organ - Uniting Church

McCracken Street,, KENSINGTON VIC 3031 - Property No B6364

One of the seven known organs exported to Victoria in the 1860s by London organbuilder John Courcelle, this single-manual instrument of five stops is thought to have been placed in the Wesleyan Church, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda before its installation at Kensington, possibly in the 1920's. The instrument is intact, apart from the introduction of electric blowing, and retains its gabled Gothic case of three flats, oak console fittings and bold voicing. Classified: 04/05/1989

B6364

Regional
174681

Frederick Taylor Pipe Organ - Armadale Uniting Church

86A Kooyong Road,, ARMADALE VIC 3143 - Property No B6410

The pipe organ built in 1912-14 is the most substantial example of an instrument by the Hawthorn organbuilder Frederick Taylor to survive. The organ was notable at the time for its symphonic tonal style. While the original action was converted to electro-pneumatic in 1975 and some minor tonal additions made at this time, almost all of the original pipework survives. The organ is significant for historic, aesthetic and technical reasons at a regional level. The pipe ... more

B6410

Regional
68755

Fincham & Hobday Organ - Uniting Church

163 Chapel Street,, ST KILDA VIC 3182 - Property No B6113

A two-manual organ of nine stops built in 1891 by Fincham & Hobday, remaining largely unaltered. The instrument retains its mechanical action, detached console, tonal scheme, and attractive casework incorporating diapered pipework. Classified: 14/12/1989

B6113

Local
194470

Laurie Pipe Organ, St Columba's Uniting Church

Cnr Raymond and Macalister Streets, SALE VIC 3850 - Property No B3860

 

B3860

File only
174511

Henry Willis Organ - Wesley Uniting Church

8 Oxford Street,, BOX HILL VIC 3128 - Property No B5415

This organ was built in 1877 by the major English organ builder, Henry Willis, for Findon, Kew, the mansion of the Hon. Henry "Money" Miller. Here it stood at the end of a large ballroom where it was depicted in Victoria and its Metropolis (1888). No expense was spared in the construction of the organ, with superlative materials and lavish finishes being freely employed. The instrument well exemplifies the domestic aspirations of a notable resident on Marvellous Melbourne. It ... more

B5415

State
121846

St Andrew's Uniting Church - Box Hill

909 Whitehorse Road, BOX HILL VIC 3128 - Property No B2906

A Gothic church in rough dressed bluestone which is a remodelling of that designed by Smith & Watts and built in 1866-67 as the Presbyterian Church, West Melbourne, with a tower modelled upon St Botolph, Boston, Lincolnshire. In 1935 the building, modified in its dimensions and with the south front and tower redesigned was re-erected at Box Hill. The architects in conjunction were John Scarborough, of Scarborough Robertson & Love, and Hugh Craig, of Craig Reynolds & ... more

B2906

Local
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