SLATER/TAYLOR ORGAN - ST MICHAEL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH

File Number:

B6109

Level:

Local

Location:

McIlwraith Street CARLTON NORTH

Address:

McIlwraith Street CARLTON NORTH 3054 VIC
Municipality: Yarra City

b6109 Slater Taylor Organ St Michael's McIlwraith St Nth Carlton

b6109 Slater Taylor Organ St Michael's McIlwraith St Nth Carlton

Image Date: 1989

Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance:

CITATION A three-manual chamber organ of 12 stops begun by F W Slater, of Fitzroy, possibly for his residence, and completed by Frederick Taylor, of Hawthorn, before its installation at Carlton in 1912. Believed to be the smallest three-manual organ in Australia, the instrument is of interest for its fiddle back blackwood case, incorporating exposed wooden pipes and an elaborate cornice with dentil mouldings, its elegant refined sound, and its complex mechanical action.