Rolland House Chapel, Carlton: organ
[photograph by W.G.S. Smith (c.1970)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by John Maidment
© OHTA (last updated October 2014)
Rolland House was a training college run by the Presbyterian Church for deaconesses and missionaries and was located on the site of the former St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, which was demolished in the late 1930s. The College had been based at Carlton in 1915 although had been founded as early as 1898.1
Rolland House Chapel, Carlton: organ
[photograph by W.G.S. Smith (c.1970)]
The organ was built in 1947 by Hill, Norman & Beard (Australia) Pty Ltd, order number V204. It was totally enclosed and placed behind wooden grillework in a chamber to the left of the very small chapel. On the closure of the College, around 1983, the organ was sadly broken up and the parts used elsewhere.
| GREAT Open Diapason Principal Swell Sub Octave to Great Swell to Great Swell Octave to Great SWELL Flûte à Cheminée Salicional Vox Angelica Nason Flute Sub Octave Unison Off Octave Tremulant PEDAL Bourdon Bass Flute Octave Flute Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal |
8 4 8 8 8 4 16 8 4 |
TC A A A |
Compass: 61/30
Attached stopkey console
2 thumb pistons to Great
3 thumb pistons to Swell
Reversible thumb piston for Great to Pedal
Balanced mechanical swell pedal to whole organ
Electro-pneumatic action2
1 http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4274b.htm accessed 27 October 2014
2 Details of organ noted by John Maidment 1966