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Organs of Sydney

Information has been taken from organ ramble notes in various issues of the Sydney Organ Journal, Organ Historical Trust of Australia conference handbooks, articles in OHTA News, Graeme D Rushworth's Historic Organs of New South Wales (Hale & Iremonger, 1988) and John Maidment's Gazetteer of New South Wales Pipe Organs (Society of Organists Vic Inc, 1981). Pages with mp3s are indicated by *. For Gazetteer "Sources and Abbreviations", please click here to download as pdfs.

SYDNEY – City

Concert Halls
	Sydney Town Hall * cnr George & Druitt Streets Hill & Son 1886-9 (5/127 tubular-pneumatic/Barker lever)
	Sydney Opera House Concert organ: Ronald Sharp 1979 (5/132 mechanical and electric) Continuo organ: ABC chamber organ (portable) B. 1961 Ronald Sharp 1m., 5 sp. st., no pedals. tr. Man: 8.4.2.1-1/3.1.
	State Theatre 49 Market Street Wurlitzer 1929 Op 2005, Style 270 (4/21 ranks extension, 216 stops, electric) Currently undergoing restoration
Universities and Schools
	Great Hall, University of Sydney First organ: B. 1883 Forster & Andrews, Hull Reb. 1922-25 Charles Richardson. Reb. 1932-33 Hill, Norman & Beard (o/n 330) Rem. 1970 and in storage at residence of Kevin Clancy, Wentworthville 3m., 37 sp. st., 14c., el. pn. Gt: 16.8.8.8.8.8.4.4.2-2/3.2.8. Sw: 16.8.8.8.8.4.2.II.8.8.4. Ch: 8.8.8.8.4.2.8.8.8. Ped: 16.16.16.16.8.16. Present organ: von Beckerath 1972 (3/53 mechanical and electric)
	Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street 1. Pogson 1973 (3/37 mechanical), refurbished South Island Organ Co. 2001
	2. George Fincham 1976 Studio practice organ (2/9 mechanical) Rem. Mark Fisher Dec. 2006 for residence of John Jackson, Mount Colah
	Sydney Grammar School, College Street Mander 2004 (2/20 mechanical)
	Fleig 1998 Continuo organ (1/5 mechanical)
Cathedrals
	St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, * cnr George & Bathurst Streets Hill & Son 1866, Davidson 1899; Hill, Norman & Beard 1952, Létourneau 1998 (4/53 mechanical and electric)
	St Mary's Catholic Cathedral, College Street Orgues Létourneau 2000 (4/46 mechanical and electric) Western Transept Gallery
	Ronald Sharp 1960 (2/26 electric) Chancel Triforium
	Whitehouse Bros. 1942 (2/27 electric) Southern Gallery
	Bellsham organs 1986 (2/9 mechanical) Crypt
Churches
Anglican
	St James' Anglican Church, King Street, Queen Square John Gray c.1827 2m., 13 sp. st., [1c.], pedal pulldowns, 2 shifting movements, tr. Cost £500, Gt: 8.8.4.2-2/3.2.Sesquialtera.Mixture.[8. reed prep. for]. Sw: (ten. F): 8.8.4.2.8. Great Trumpet supplied 1831 Gray for £39.1/6 Reb. and enl. Davidson, Reb. and enl. Fincham 1905, Reb. and enl. Hill, Norman & Beard 1972 (3/66 electric)
	Christ Church St Laurence Anglican Church, * George Street, Railway Square First organ: B. c. 1845 William Johnson; destroyed by fire 18/8/1905 Present organ: Hill & Son 1892 (3/26 mechanical and tubular-pneumatic)
	St Philip's Anglican Church, * cnr York & Jamison and Clarence Streets, Church Hill J W Walker 1873 (2/27 mechanical and tubular-pnuematic)
	St Barnabas' Anglican Church, * cnr Parramatta Road and Mountain Street, Broadway Hill & Son 1879 (2/23 mechanical) Church and organ destroyed by fire 10th May, 2006
	Holy Trinity Anglican Church (the "Garrison Church") cnr. Argyle & Lower Fort Streets, Millers Point Builder unknown c. 1847 Restored with tonal alterations 1971 Arthur Jones. (2/13 mechanical)
Catholic
	St Patrick's Catholic Church, cnr Grosvenor & Gloucester Streets, Church Hill First organ: B. 1847-48 Gray & Davison, London coxt £336.16/3. Rem. c. 1895. Present location unknown. 2m., 14 sp st., 2c., tr. Gt: (to GG) 8.8 divided.8.4.2-2/3.2.III.8. Sw: (ten. C) 8.8.4.2.8. Ped: 16. Second organ: B. c. 1895 Charles Anneesens, Grammont, Belgium. 3m., 28 sp.st., 7c., tub. pn. Gt: 16.16.8.8.4.2.IV.16.8.4. Sw: 16.8.8.8.8.4.2.16.8.8.8. Ch: 8.8.8. Ped: 16.16.16.8. Reb. 1971-72 A. Welby 2m., 29 sp.st., 7c., el.pn. Gt: 8.8.4.4.2-2/3.2.IV.IV.8. Sw: 8.8.4.4.2.1-1/3.IV.16.8.8.4. Ped: 16.16.8.8.4.III.16.8.4. Present organ: Ruffatti 2004 (2/22 mechanical)
	St Peter Julian's Catholic Church, 641 George Street, Haymarket Geo. Fincham & Sons 1964, enl. Peter DG Jewkes 2007 (2/13 ranks extension + 2 mixtures electric)
	St Benedict's Catholic Church, cnr Chippendale and Parramatta Roads, Broadway F.H. Baker 1882, restored Pitchford & Garside 1978 (2/19 mechanical)
Uniting
	Pitt St Uniting Church, * 264 Pitt Street (formerly Congregational) First organ: B. 1845 W. J. Johnson Second organ: B. c. 1906 W.G Rendall: rem. 1910 Present location uncertain. 3m., 38 sp. st., tub. pn. Gt: 16.8.8.8.4.4.2-2/3.2.[Mixture prep. for].8.4. Sw: 16.8.8.8.8.8.4.2.Mixture.8.8.8.4. Ch: 8.8.8.4.4.2.8. Ped: 16.16.16.10-2/3.8.32.16. Present organ: Hill & Son 1910 (3/31 tubular pneumatic)
	St Stephen's Uniting Church, 197 Macquarie Street (formerly Presbyterian) First organ: see: Armidale Wesley Uniting Church Present organ: Hill, Norman & Beard 1933 (3/44 electric)
	Wesley Mission, 220 Pitt Street Wesley Church - Whitehouse Bros 1941-2, reb. Pitchford & Garside 1991 (2/17 electic) (formerly in the Church of Christ, Scientist, Chatswood) Wesley Theatre - "Christie" theatre organ by Hill, Norman & Beard 1928, reb. Pitchford & Garside 1991 (2/8 ranks extension plus Mixture)
Lutheran
	Lutheran Church, 3 Stanley Street E.F. Walcker & Cie., Ludwigsburg, Germany, 1887, Op. 498, restored and installed Pitchford & Garside 1986 (2/8 mechanical). (formerly in Crows Nest Baptist Church)
	German Lutheran Church, 90 Goulburn Street First organ: Details unknown Second organ: see: Young St John's Anglican Church Present organ: Schuke 1979-80 (2/17 mechanical)
Baptist
	Central Baptist Church, 619 George Street c.1889 Nicholson & Lord, reb.1937, reb. and enl. Graeme Rawson 1966, restored A. Welby 1971 (2/27 electric)
Presbyterian
	Scots Church Assembly Hall, Cnr York and Margaret Street Hill, Norman & Beard 1929-30, 3m. 47 sp.st., 18c., el. pn. Organ removed from Assembly Hall with redevelopment of the church building (c.2000). Sold to Scotch College, Hawthorn, Melbourne Restored and erected in the College Assembly Hall, South Island Organ Co. and Peter D G Jewkes (Sydney) 2004. 3m, 50 speaking stops, 18 couplers, el.pn.
Residence
	Residence of Dr Wilbur Hughes, "The Peak", Quay Street, Haymarket Jäger und Brommer, Waldkirch, Black Forest, Germany 2000 2 m., 6 sp. st, (+ MIDI), mechanical and electric
Lost, removed or destroyed
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Sydney Suburban Organs

Members of the Organ Music Society of Sydney are invited to document their own suburban instruments and send photos, information and specifications to the webmaster, Mark Quarmby, to add to those below. There are about 350 organs in the Sydney region. Most of the following documentations have been taken from organ ramble notes from the past 35 years' issues of the Sydney Organ Journal, OHTA Sydney conference booklets and articles from OHTA News. Some of the organ details date from over 20 years ago and may well be out of date by now. Please contact the webmaster with any corrections you may find and if known, send more up to date information which can be added. While some of the writers have included personal observations in their notes, their sources were rarely listed. The majority of the historical details have been taken from Graeme D Rushworth's Historic Organs of New South Wales (Hale & Iremonger, 1988) and John Maidment's Gazetteer of New South Wales Pipe Organs (Society of Organists Vic Inc, 1981), from which the organ summaries have been taken. For Gazetteer "Sources and Abbreviations", please click here to download as pdfs.

Index of Sydney Suburbs

(includes Blue Mountains)

Sydney suburbs are arranged in alphabetical order - please click on the blue links

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Click here for other NSW towns & cities A Annandale L Lane Cove Arcadia Lavender Bay Arncliffe Leichhardt Artarmon Lewisham Ashbury Lidcombe Ashfield Lindfield Asquith East Lindfield Auburn Liverpool B Balgowlah Longueville Balmain Lugar Brae Baulkham Hills M Malvern Hill Beecroft Manly Bellevue Hill Marrickville Belmore Menangle Berowra Heights Milsons Point Bexley Miranda Bexley North Moorebank Birchgrove Mortdale Blackheath Mosman Blakehurst Mount Colah Bondi Mount Druitt Bondi Beach Mulgoa Bondi North N Naremburn Bonnyrigg Heights Narrabeen Botany Neutral Bay Burwood Newtown Burwood East Normanhurst C Camden Northbridge Cammeray Northmead Campbelltown North Parramatta Camperdown North Sydney Campsie P Paddington Canterbury Pagewood Carlingford Parramatta Carlton South North Parramatta Castle Hill Peakhurst Casula Pennant Hills Chatswood West Pennant Hills Chatswood East Penrith Chatswood South Penshurst Chester Hill Petersham Chippendale Picton Cobbity Port Hacking Collaroy Potts Point Concord Prospect Concord North Punchbowl Concord West Pymble Coogee Pyrmont Cremorne R Randwick Crows Nest Redfern Croydon Richmond Croydon North Riverstone Croydon Park Riverview D Darlinghurst Rockdale Darling Point Rooty Hill Darlington Rose Bay Dee Why Roseville Denistone East Roseville Denistone East Rozelle Drummoyne Ryde Dulwich Hill West Ryde E Earlwood S St Ives East Lindfield St Peters East Roseville Sans Souci East Sydney Seaforth Eastwood Seven Hills Edgecliff Smithfield Elizabeth Bay South Hurstville Enfield Stanmore Enmore Strathfield Epping Summer Hill Epping West Surry Hills Erskineville Sutherland F Figtree Sydney City Five Dock Sydney City - Forest Lodge - Lost organs G Galston East Sydney Gladesville North Sydney Glebe Sylvania Heights Glenbrook T Toongabbie Glenorie Turramurra Gordon U Ultimo Granville V Vaucluse Greenwich W Wahroonga H Haberfield Waitara Harbord Warriewood Harris Park Waterloo Homebush Watsons Bay Hornsby Waverley Hunters Hill Wentworthville Hurlstone Park Westmead Hurstville West Pennant Hills South Hurstville West Ryde I Ingleburn Willoughby K Katoomba Windsor Kensington Woodford Killara Woollahra Kings Cross Woolloomooloo Kingsford Kingsgrove Kirrawee Kirribilli Kogarah

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