Holy Name Church (formerly Priory)
Wahroonga

Main organ: Geoffrey Kendall (early 1980s)


Australian Brandenburg Orchestra continuo organ
Mander Organs, London, 2003
1 manual, 4 speaking stops, mechanical action
(stored at Holy Name Catholic Church when not in use)

 

The Mander Chamber organ at Holy Name Priory, Wahroonga
[Photograph by James Goldrick (June 2019)]

The Kendall specificaiton is:

 

Great Double Open Flute  Open Diapason  Stopped Diapason Principal  Octave Flute  Twelfth  Fifteenth  Plein Jeu  Trompette Royale Swell to Great   Choir to Great Swell (enclosed) Principal  Gedackt  Viol di Gamba Principal  Stopped Flute Flautina Mixture  Contra Tromba Tromba Clarion Tremulant Choir (enclosed) Rohrflote  Salicional  Chimney Flote Salicet  Block Flote Tierce  Larigot   Octavin   Clarinet  Tremulant Swell to Choir Pedal Resultant Bass Sub Bass Bourdon Nachthorn  Bass Flute  Quint  Choral Bass  Posaune  Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal    Choir to Pedal

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

Reeds in red
Drawstop console
Some extension (?)
Organ in west gallery
Console detached, facing across gallery
Electric action
Organ presently disused and not maintained, but playable
Church large and with a reverberant acoustic

The Mander specification and deails are found here: The Mander Chamber organ

 

Proposed organ – drawing in stairwell.  

 

Specification and photos provided by Brett McKern (Oct 2009)