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Details of Christ Church St. Laurence, Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1907

Organ History
1892	Built by Hill
1907	Moved

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	24	24	5	T/P

I. Choir
1.	Gamba	8'
2.	Dulciana	8'
3.	Lieblich Gedeckt	8'
4.	Wald Flute	4'
5.	Clarionet	8'
i	Swell to Choir
II. Great
6.	Open Diapason	8'
7.	Violon Diapason	8'
8.	Hohl Flute	8'
9.	Principal	4'
10.	Harmonic Flute	4'
11.	Mixture	III
12.	Trumpet	8'
ii	Swell to Great
Swell
13.	Bourdon	16'
14.	Open Diapason	8'
15.	Rohr Flute	8'
16.	Salicional	8'
17.	Voix Celeste	8'
18.	Principal	4'
19.	Mixture	III
20.	Horn	8'
21.	Oboe	8'
Pedal
22.	Open Diapason	16'
23.	Bourdon	16'
24.	Violoncello	8'
iii	Great to Pedal
iv	Swell to Pedal
v	Choir to Pedal

1966

Organ History
1966	Rebuilt by S. T. Node & Son

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	24	24	5	T/P

I. Choir
1.	Gamba	8'
2.	Dulciana	8'
3.	Lieblich Gedeckt	8'
4.	Wald Flute	4'
5.	Clarionet	8'
i	Swell to Choir
II. Great
6.	Open Diapason	8'
7.	Violon Diapason	8'
8.	Hohl Flute	8'
9.	Principal	4'
10.	Harmonic Flute	4'
11.	Mixture	III
12.	Trumpet	8'
ii	Swell to Great
III. Swell
13.	Bourdon	16'
14.	Open Diapason	8'
15.	Rohr Flute	8'
16.	Salicional	8'
17.	Principal	4'
18.	Piccolo	2'
19.	Mixture	III
20.	Horn	8'
21.	Oboe	8'
22.	Tremulant
Pedal
23.	Open Diapason	16'
24.	Bourdon	16'
25.	Violoncello	8'
iii	Great to Pedal
iv	Swell to Pedal
v	Choir to Pedal

1979

Organ History
1979	Rebuilt by Orgues Létourneau

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	26	26	5	T/P/EP

I. Choir
1.	Gamba	8'
2.	Dulciana	8'
3.	Lieblich Gedeckt	8'
4.	Wald Flute	4'
5.	Clarionet	8'
i	Swell to Choir
II. Great
6.	Open Diapason	8'
7.	Violon Diapason	8'
8.	Hohl Flute	8'
9.	Principal	4'
10.	Harmonic Flute	4'
11.	Mixture	III
12.	Trumpet	8'
ii	Swell to Great
III. Swell
13.	Bourdon	16'
14.	Open Diapason	8'
15.	Rohr Flute	8'
16.	Salicional	8'
17.	Principal	4'
18.	Piccolo	2'
19.	Mixture	III
20.	Horn	8'
21.	Oboe	8'
22.	Tremulant
Pedal
23.	Open Diapason	16'
24.	Bourdon	16'
25.	Violoncello	8'
26.	Fifteenth	4'
27.	Trombone	16'
iii	Great to Pedal
iv	Swell to Pedal
v	Choir to Pedal

List of Organists
1843-66	William Jonathan Johnson (1811-1866)
1866-67	Ernest Stephen (1847-1938)
1867-69	William Henry Nash
1870-82	William Stanley (1820-1902)
1883-84	William Henry Nash
1885	H. Armitt
1886-90	E. J. Massey
1890	Charles Edward Albery (1863-1941)
1890-93	E. Arthur Morris (1862-)
1893	J. C. Mc Millan
1893-96	Ernest Truman (1869-1948)
1897	J. Thomas
1897	Charles Edward Albery (1863-1941)
1898	R. G. H. Walmsley (1875-1957)
1900-02	J. M. Ennis (1864-1921)
1902	Charles Edward Albery (1863-1941)
1902-14	William Biggs
	Wilfred Arlom (1887-1945)
1914-18	Richard H. Kay
1918-27	Edwin F. Robinson
1927-34	Christian Hellemann
1934-36	Leslie Sage
1936-80	Colin Henry Sapsford (1908-1980)
1980-88	Peter Kneeshaw
1988-97	David Drury
1997-	Peter Jewkes

List of Assistant Organists
1897-98	Thomas H. Massey

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