St Andrew's Anglican Church, Indooroopilly
[Photograph by Howard Baker (October 1989)]
St Andrew's Anglican Church, Indooroopilly
[Photograph by Howard Baker (October 1989)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by Geoffrey Cox
© OHTA 1989, 2011 (last updated August 2011)
The present St Andrew's Church dates from 1965, superseding the original church built in 1889.1
The organ was acquired second-hand from England, and was opened and dedicated at Indooroopilly on Sunday 17 July 1988.2 It was built in 1884 by the little-known Yorkshire builders, Driver and Lupton of Keighley, for the Slack Lane Baptist Church, Haworth, West Yorkshire. Having been hastily removed from its former home prior to demolition, the instrument was restored and installed in its present location in 1987-88 by W.J. Simon Pierce.3
The 1884 Driver & Lupton organ
in the gallery at Indooroopilly
[Photograph by Howard Baker (October 1989)]
Space constraints in the gallery at Indooroopilly necessitated several modifications to the original layout of the organ: The larger pipes of the façade on either side were lowered; the middle façade pipes were slightly shortened; the Swell Organ was lowered; the Choir Organ (originally enclosed and beneath the Swell Organ) was moved to the rear of the organ over the stairwell and left unenclosed; and the action was modified accordingly.4
Console of the Driver & Lupton organ
[Photograph by Howard Baker (October 1989)]
| GREAT Double Open Diapason Open Diapason Hohl Flote Bell Gamba Principal Harmonic Flute Fifteenth Full Mixture Trumpet SWELL Bourdon Open Diapason Gedact Salicional Principal Fifteenth Mixture Horn Oboe CHOIR Dulciana Voix Celestes [2 rks] Rohr Flote Lieblich Flute Harmonic Piccolo Clarionet PEDAL Open Diapason Bourdon Viola COUPLERS Swell to Great Swell to Choir Swell to Pedal Great to Pedals Choir to Pedal |
16 8 8 8 4 4 2 IV 8 16 8 8 8 4 2 III 8 8 8 8 8 4 2 8 16 16 8 |
[stopped bass] [gvd bass] [gvd bass] [piccolo] (formerly enclosed) [Tenor C] [pipes marked 'Clarabella'] [Tenor C] [older pipes, showing some stenciling] |
Trigger swell lever
Swell tremulant
3 combination pedals to Great Organ
3 combination pedals to Swell Organ
Pedalboard: radiating & concave
Compass: 56/30
Mechanical action.5
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1 Glenda Murrell, Anglican Records and Archive Centre Guide to Records (DioceseofBrisbaneWeb, 2001) - cited January 2004.
2 Anglican Focus, no. 123 (July 1988), p. 5.
3 Personal communication to G. Cox from W. J. Simon Pierce, 1988; OHTA News, vol. 12, no. 1 (January 1988), p. 9.
4 [Simon Pierce], 'The Organ of St Andrew's Anglican Church, Indooroopilly, Part I: Installing an Old Organ from Overseas into a Modern Church,' Organ Society of Queensland Newsletter (October 1988), pp. 16-34.
5 Specification noted by G. Cox, September 1988 & October 1989.