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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Second Church Of Christ Scientist & Hill, Norman & Beard Pipe Organ 41 Cookson Street,, CAMBERWELL VIC 3124 - Property No B4985	An austere brick building of monumental proportions, designed by Bates Smart & McCutcheon and built in 1937, comprising a church, Sunday school and offices at various levels. The exterior consisits of overlapping cuboids of banded cream brickwork with patterned cornices and three large wrought iron entrance doors. The church interior, with louvered ceiling, focusses upon a large rostrum screen with geometric patterns. This building is of importance as a distinctive local ... more	B4985	State
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
Andreas Svensson Pipe Organ - St Peter's Anglican Church 371 Neerim Road,, MURRUMBEENA VIC 3163 - Property No B2571	The pipe organ is the only example of an instrument built by leading Melbourne cabinet maker Andreas Svensson, possibly for his home in Kent Street, Richmond. The organ is significant for historic, aesthetic and technical reasons at a regional level. The Svensson pipe organ at St Peter's Church is significant for the following reasons: . It is the only identifiable example of its builder's work . It is a rare example of an organ built by a Melbourne cabinet maker ... more	B2571	Regional
Stephen Laurie Pipe Organ, St Paul's Anglican Church Clifton Street,, EUROA VIC 3666 - Property No B7385	The pipe organ built in 1958-59 by Stephen Laurie was the first new instrument that he built. Trained in England with the noted firm of John Compton, Steve Laurie went on to build or rebuild a large number of instruments in five Australian states. The Euroa organ was built upon the extension principle and the earliest example by its builder of a genre that became popular in the 1960s. The organ is significant for historic, aesthetic and technical reasons at a local level ... more	B7385	Regional
Pipe Organ - St Albans Anglican Church Melrose Street, NORTH MELBOURNE VIC 3051 - Property No B4706	This organ is an example of English organ-building circa 1850-1860. Its early history is unknown but thought to be of English origin. Apart from additions made in 1931 by C W Andrewartha it remains in substantially original form. The pipework, being made up of secondhand odd lots, is older than the organ. Owing to the poor condition of the organ it is very difficult to assess if its sound is original. The attractive organ case is marred by deterioration and the finish is ... more	B4706	Local
Laurie Pipe Organ - Whitley College 271 Royal Parade,, PARKVILLE VIC 3052 - Property No B4790	The pipe organ built in 1975 by Laurie Pipe Organs Pty Ltd, directed by Steve Laurie, Job Number 437, is an imaginative and musically highly successful small organ that sounds well in a reverberant acoustic, suggesting an instrument of larger size and resources. It was one of the few completely new mechanical action instruments built by the Laurie firm and used in the 1970s for several recitals during the Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord. The appearance of ... more	B4790	State
St Aloysius' Catholic Church & J W Wolff Pipe Organ 233 Balaclava Road,, CAULFIELD VIC 3162 - Property No B6028	Church Statement of Significance. An imposing brick church, designed by Bart Moriarty and opened in 1924, comprising a tall clerestoried nave with aisles, 40m tower and spire, apsidal chancel, nun's tribune and sacristies. A late manifestation of what was praised at the time as "Gothic copyism", this building is notable for its elongated proportions, the unbroken roof ridge over the nave and sanctuary ridge, and the spacious interior with Oamaru stone altars, reredos and ... more	B6028	Regional
George Fincham Pipe Organ St Mary's Star of the Sea 33 Howard & 235 - 237 Victoria Streets, WEST MELBOURNE VIC 3003 - Property No B3460	The whole of the organ built 1898-1900 The organ is significant for historic and aesthetic reasons at a national level The pipe organ at St Mary's Star-of-the-Sea Church is significant for the following reasons:. It retains all its original pipework which remains entirely unaltered. It retains its original casework and the facade pipes retain their original stencilling and gilding. It retains all of its original windchests, building ... more	B3460	National
F W Nicholson Pipe Organ - St. Patrick's Church Cnr Rogers & Childers Streets,, MENTONE VIC 3194 - Property No B6807	A two-manual instrument of 24 speaking stops built in Bradford, England by Frederick W Nicholson, installed in the Independent Church, Prahran in 1863 and in its present location in 1999. The instrument incorporates the largest corpus of pipework from the early years of Victoria and is notable for its flue choruses, of Germanic inspiration, and its elaborate Gothic case, incorporating gilt finials and stencilled faade pipes. Although reconfigured for its new location, with a new ... more	B6807	Local
Merklin-Schutze Pipe Organ 158 Colchester Road,, KILSYTH VIC 3137 - Property No B0459	Built circa 1870 by Merklin-Schutze in Brussels for St John's Anglican Church, Toorak, this instrument is the only large example of the French symphonic romantic school of organbuilding surviving in Australia in substantially original form. It is an ideal medium for the performance of music of the French romantic organ school. Since Australia possesses so few instruments which are principally designed around a particular style of organ composition this instrument ... more	B0459	State

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