All Saints' Anglican Cathedral
Bathurst

1886 Brindley & Foster, reb. several times, 1986 Brown & Arkley
3m., 44 sp.st., 13c., el.pn.

From 1990 OHTA Conference handbook:

The English firm of Brindley & Foster of Sheffield were builders of three instruments exported to New South Wales in the nineteenth century. The first of these was for St Peter's Cooks River in the inner-southern suburbs of Sydney, an instrument which has given excellent service since its installation in 1880. In 1882 a larger instrument was sent to St John-the-Baptist Anglican Church in Mudgee, and in 1886 a substantial 3-manual organ of 29 stops was supplied to All Saints', Bathurst.

The Bathurst instrument has been subjected to numerous rebuilds, some of quality less than satisfactory, and thus the instrument bears little resemblance to the original. The first rebuild was undertaken by C.W. Leggo, who moved the instrument and made tonal alterations in 1922. Other work has been carried out by S.T. Noad & Son and by Geoffrey Kendall. In 1986 Brown & Arkley completely rebuilt the instrument in order to modify previous deficiences. The instrument now has 44 speaking stops, 13 couplers and electro-pneumatic action.

The current stoplist is:

Great Bourdon Open Diapason Horn Diapason Hohl Flute Stopped Diapason Pincipal Harmonic Flute Stopped Flute Twelfth Fifteenth Mixture Sharp Mixture Trumpet Clarion Great Octave Swell to Great Choir to Great Swell Bourdon Open Diapason Stopped Diapason Gamba Voix Celeste Principal Piccolo Mixture Bassoon Cornopean Oboe Tremulant Swell Sub Octave Swell Unison Off Swell Super Octave Choir (enclosed) Open Diapason Lieblich Gedact Dulciana Salicet Wald Flute Piccolo Clarinet Great Trumpet Tremulant Swell to Choir Choir Octave Choir Unison Off Choir Sub Octave Pedal Sub Bourdon Major Bass Sub Bass Echo Bourdon Principal Bass Flute Echo Flute Quint Flute Trombone Trumpet Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Choir to Pedal

16 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 2-2/3 2 III III 8 4 16 8 8 8 8 4 2 III 16 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 2 8 8 32 16 16 16 8 8 8 5-1/3 4 16 8

4 levels of memory
8 Generals
5 pistons to Swell
5 pistons to Great
4 pistons to Choir
5 toe pistons to Pedal
Pedal to Great pistons coupler
Usual reversibles

Photos supplied by Kylie Warner, Mark Quarmby and Trevor Bunning 2005/6



Old Bathurst Cathedral Exterior photo taken 9-3-1968 (Trevor Bunning)

Designed by Edmund Blacket and commenced in the 1850's.

Mortan Herman in his book 'The Blackets - An Era of Australian Architecture' writes, "The end of the 1850's saw the virtual completion of Blacket's church of All Saints, Bathurst, which later became the cathedral church and gained aisles and a tower during the 1860's. But endless alteration and finally almost complete rebuilding have removed the cathedral from a real list of Blacket's extant works".

Bathurst Anglican Cathedral on 9 March 1968 (TB)