ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH & ORGAN
File Number:
B4844
VHR Number:
H748
Level:
State
Location:
73 North Road BRIGHTON
Address:
73 North Road BRIGHTON 3186 VIC
Municipality: Bayside City
Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance:
Church Statement of Significance: A large cruciform church in Barrabool stone comprising a clerestoried nave, aisles, tower base, transepts and apsidal chancel built in two stages. The nave was built in 1891 to the design of E J Henderson followed by the transepts and chancel in 1924, designed by Schreiber & Jorgensen. The nave is of interest for the facade, with traceried window, comparable to Henderson's earlier design for St Mary's Cathedral, Sale, and the large sexfiol clerestory windows. The interior includes an unusually elaborate decorative scheme of 1934 in Opus Sectile mosaic covering the walls of the apse, and a pipe organ by Alfred Fuller of Kew, placed centrally on the rear gallery.Church Classified 9/2/1989 Rectory Added 26/11/1987 Revised: Classified State 3/8/1998 Organ Statement of Significance: A two-manual organ, originally of 12 speaking stops and of uncertain origin. The case and console were built in the late 19th century by Alfred Fuller, of Kew, but the pipework and windchests are generally characteristic of the work of William Anderson, of Melbourne, who installed the instrument at Gardenvale in 1902. Although several tonal additions and alterations have been made to the organ in recent years, it retains its original action, console and casework incorporating richly diapered pipes.Of regional significance. Organ Classified 13.5.92