The Marist College Chapel of Our Lady and Saint Marcellin, Ashgrove
[Photograph by Howard Baker (c.1991)]
The Marist College Chapel of Our Lady and Saint Marcellin, Ashgrove
[Photograph by Howard Baker (c.1991)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by Geoffrey Cox
© OHTA 2011 (last updated August 2011)
Marist College Ashgrove was founded in 1940 on the site formerly purchased by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane for use as a seminary for the proposed (but since disbanded) religious order of Father Walter Cain, to be known as the Missionary Order. A remnant of the Order is to be seen in the Tower Block, built in the 1930s, which remains an important architectural symbol of the present College.1
The Kitty Gillmore Memorial Organ in the College Chapel of Our Lady and Saint Marcellin was built in 1986 by Roger H. Pogson of Orange, NSW.2 It followed the similar installation of an organ by the same builder in 1980 at the Anglican Church Grammar School, East Brisbane.
The 1986 Roger H. Pogson organ in the College Chapel
[Photograph by Howard Baker (c.1991)]
The Great Organ and Pedal Organ are located on a common windchest in the upper part of the solid oak case, and the Swell Organ is located behind the grille above the console. The winding is flexible, using a double-rise reservoir, and the temperament is described by the builder as 'The Equal Beating Aron-Neidhardt Well Temperament in The Acoustic Tonality of C Major' dating from about 1724.3
Console of the 1986 Roger H. Pogson organ
[Photograph by Howard Baker (c.1991)]
The specification is as follows:
| GREAT Principal Rohr Flute Octave Sifflute Mixture SWELL Gemshorn Gedackt Rohr Flute Principal Sesquialtera PEDAL Sub Bass Principal COUPLERS Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Swell to Great |
8 8 4 2 III 8 8 4 2 II 16 8 |
A gvd bass A |
Tremulant (general)
Mechanical action
Compass: 56/30
Temperament: Aron-Neidhardt, equal beating, Well Temperament.4
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1 'Marist College Ashgrove: College History', www.marash.qld.edu.au - accessed August 2011.
2 The Sydney Organ Journal, vol. 16, no. 5 (October/November 1985), p. 12; OHTA News, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 1986), pp. 35-36.
3 Roger H. Pogson, 'The Organ of Marist Brothers' College Chapel, Ashgrove: The Builder's Perspective,' Organ Society of Queensland Newsletter, vol. 19, no. 1 (August 1991), pp. 31-32.
4 Specification from The Sydney Organ Journal, vol. 16, no. 5 (October/November 1985), p. 12; OHTA News, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 1986), pp. 35-36, and Organ Society of Queensland Newsletter, vol. 19, no. 1 (August 1991), p. 36.