St John's Lutheran Church

Church Street, Minyip

Built by Alfred Fuller; opened January 1890
1 manual, 5 speaking stops, pedal pulldowns, mechanical action



St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: exterior
[photograph from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minyip#/media/File:Minyip_Lutheran_Church.JPG ]


Historical and Technical Documentation by John Maidment
© OHTA, 2004 (latest update November 2019)

St John's is a large wooden church built in 1889 to the design of Horsham architect H.A. Gillies for the small township of Kirchheim.1 In 1935, the church was bodily moved six kilometres to its present site and reassembled. The building includes a prominent timber fleche, sited on the roof ridge, and a rear gallery. In 1922, Robert Prenzel supplied a design for an altar in the church.2



St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: organ
[photograph by W.G.S. Smith (date unknown, c.1970)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: organ
[photograph by Graham Lieschke (November 2019)]

The organ was built by Alfred Fuller and opened in January 1890. A unique example of a single manual organ made by Fuller, it remains in its original state and received minor restoration work by Leighton Turner in 1977.

MANUAL
Lieblich Bourdon
Double Diapason
Open Diapason
Dulciana
Principal
Piccolo

16
16
8
8
4
2

CC-BB
TC



previously labelled Fifteenth 2
    










Compass: 56/30
Mechanical key and stop action
Pedal pulldowns
2 knee levers activating set registrations
1 composition pedal acting as a general cancel
Hand blowing with indicator enclosed in glass faced box
Attached drawstop console3

1 Victorian Churches, edited by Miles Lewis. East Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1991, p.117

2 Terence Lane, Robert Prenzel 1866-1941: His Life and Work. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1994, p.62

3 Specification supplied by Alan Collyer 1966 and Graham Lieschke 2019



St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: diagonal view of organ
[photograph by John Maidment (1994)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: console
[photograph by W.G.S. Smith (date unknown, c.1970)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: left-hand stop jamb
[photograph by Graham Lieschke (November 2019)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: right-hand stop jamb
[photograph by Graham Lieschke (November 2019)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: composition levers
[photograph by Graham Lieschke (November 2019)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: nameplate
[photograph by Graham Lieschke (November 2019)]




St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip: hand blowing slot
[photograph by Graham Lieschke (November 2019)]