St. George's Anglican, Gawler, Australia

Anglican Church
Orleana Square, Gawler
Australia(AUS)

The first Church of St George was consecrated on Tuesday March 21st 1848. Five years later a barrel organ built by JW Walker of London was opened on 24th July, 1853.
The present building was begun in 1858.

The Organ:

This second instrument was made by JW Wolff and was opened on Sunday December 16th 1877, with a recital by Mr Landergan, organist of Christ Church, North Adelaide. With casework and tonal design similar to St Luke's Whitmore Square, it served the church until 1962 when a programme of rebuilding was undertaken over a numbder of years by Edgar Bowes. In 1987 it was purchased by Bruce Cool for his Rostrevor Residence and in 1990 transferred to Canberra.

The present organ was built by WG Vowles of Bristol in 1878, for the Church of St Mathias On-the-Weir, and was transferred to St Jude's Church, Lawford Gate, Bristol, circa 1946. Eric Strange, organist of St George's, knew this instrument to be redundant and proposed its purchase. The organ arrived in Gawler on July 16th, 1984 and the opening recital was given on October 12th by David Merchant, organist of Pilgrim Church