ST JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH & ORGAN

File Number:

B5958

Level:

Local

Location:

46 Otter Street COLLINGWOOD

Address:

46 Otter Street COLLINGWOOD 3066 VIC
Municipality: Yarra City

b5958 St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church 46 Otter St Collingwood

b5958 St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church 46 Otter St Collingwood

Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance:

Church Statement of Significance: A cement-faced hall church comprising three broad aisles and tower begun in 1861 to the design of J B Denny and completed in 1875 and 1891. Although cement rendered externally and deviod of its interior fittings, the building retains excellent stained glass by Ferguson & Urie, Rogers & Hughes and William Montgomery, and an anonymous organ placed in the rear gallery, possibly by William Anderson of Melbourne. Organ Statement of Significance: An anonymous single-manual organ of six stops of local manufacture, possibly built by the Melbourne organbuilder William Anderson about 1880. The instrument remains unaltered from the original apart from the introduction of electric blowing and retains its cedar console fittings, hand blowing and zinc facade pipes which are undecorated. It is the only pipe organ to survive in its original location in this suburb.