Hope Community/McElwain Baptist Church: Sanctuary
4445 Montevallo Road
Birmingham, AL
Images
2022-01-12 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Console and pipes (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Builder nameplate (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Church interior from floor (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-12 - Church interior from balcony (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1989-04-27 - Church interior from balcony (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1989-04-27 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1989-04-27 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1987-12-05 - Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1987-12-05 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 3 manuals
- 40 stops
- 31 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2007-04-22 - Identified through on-line information from Patrick Scott. -Database Manager
2007-05-24 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ housed in an immense case at the front of the room - spanning the full width of the chancel. The case is elevated above the choir platform and anchored into the front and side walls. The facade is 9-sectional and contains 123 pipes arranged: 3-45-3-8-5-8-3-45-3. The two sections of 45 are divided into lower (15) and upper (30) levels. (Documented December, 1987) -Database Manager
2022-01-07 - On November 1, 2020, the 300-member McElwain congregation became a second campus of the 7,800-member Shades Mountain Baptist Church, with the immediate changes being a new name and a new pastor, administrated by Shades Mountain Baptist. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Birmingham, Alabama
McElwain Baptist Church
Möller Op. 11071 1975 3/43
GREAT POSITIV (exp)
16' Pommer 61 8' Gedeckt 61
8' Principal 61 8' Flauto Dolce 61
8' Rohrflöte 61 4' Principal 61
4' Octave 61 4' Spillflöte 61
2' Super Octave 61 2' Octave 61
III-IV Mixture 208 III-IV Scharf 208
8' Trompete 61 8' Dulzian 61
Chimes (pf) Tremulant
SWELL PEDAL
8' Bourdon 61 16' Principal 32
8' Viole 61 16' Subbass 32
8' Viole Celeste 56 FF 16' Pommer GT
4' Flute 61 10 2/3' Quint GT
2' Doublette 61 8' Octave 12
1 1/3' Quinte 61 8' Gedeckt 32
II Cornet 122 4' Principal 32
III-IV Plein Jeu 208 4' Pommer GT
16' Basson 61 L/2 2' Octave 12
8' Trompette 61 III Mixture 96
4' Chalumeau 61 32' Contra Bombarde 12
Tremulant 16' Bombarde 32
16' Basson SW
8' Trompette 12
4' Basson SW
Chimes (pf)
[Received on line from Jeff Scofield January 01, 2010.]
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