ST JOSEPH’S CONVENT CHAPEL, LOCHINVAR

 

Founded by Fr Julian Tenison Woods and Blessed Mary McKillop in 1872, the Sisters of St Joseph Lochinvar (“Black”) are one of the five autonomous congregations of the Australian-New Zealand Federation, established in 1968.  The buildings were designed by Frederick Burnhardt Menkens (1855-1910), a renowned local architect, who designed over 100 buildings, including St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Newcastle, visited earlier in the conference.

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For more than a century, the Sisters of St Joseph conducted a school at Lochinvar. For much of that time it was predominantly a boarding school for girls. In 1992 the three Catholic secondary schools in the Maitland area amalgamated to become All Saints’ College, a co-educational day school on three campuses. While the College is a systemic school under lay administration, St Joseph's continues Years 7 – 12 in conjunction with the Sisters of St Joseph. [1]

 

The first organ in the chapel was built in 1933 by C. W. Leggo of Sydney.  With two manuals, twelve speaking stops, five couplers and tubular-pneumatic action, it was removed prior to the installation of the present organ, built in 1974 by Roger H. Pogson, of Sydney.  The new organ is a small example of a typical Orgelbewegung instrument of the period, and was provided with two spare slides which have yet to be filled.  Like other Pogson organs, this one has given over three decades of reliable service to the Convent. [2]

 


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Roger H. Pogson 1974 (2/7 mechanical)

 

GREAT
Rohr Flöte	8
Principal	4
Mixture	III
Spare slide
POSITIVE
Gedackt	8
Gemshorn	4
Quint	1-1/3
Spare slide
PEDAL
Sub Bass	16

 

Tremulant

 

 

COUPLERS

Great to Pedal

Positive to Pedal

Positive to Great

 

Mechanical action

Compass 56/30

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