St. Mark the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church
1201 Alma Drive
Plano, TX
Images
2018-02-03 - Church Interior and Organ Case (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Choir Gallery with Organ Case and Console (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Organ Case (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Organ Case (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Trompette en Chamade and Pedal action (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Console (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Left Stop Jamb Swell & Pedal stops (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Right Stop Jamb Great stops (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Tromette en Chamade stop (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Great pipework (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
2018-02-03 - Pedal 16' Posaune (Photograph by Kenton Kravig/Database Manager)
1980-01-01 - Organ (Andover promotional photograph/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
- 3 manuals
- 20 stops
- 20 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped 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)
Notes
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Emmons Howard. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1978 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - OCH. From unknown; via St. Monica R.C., Methuen, Mass.; via Thompson's Academy, Methuen. Uses parts of Emmons Howard of 1898, 2-14. Detached console. -Database Manager
2008-08-25 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2008-08-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The case was entirely new, as was the console. And much of the pipework is new. The main case houses the Great and Swell. The Pedal case is to the right. The three manual divisions are Great, Swell, and Bombarde. An 8' Trompette-en-Chamade is the only Bombarde register, and it projects from beneath the Pedal facade. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist taken from Andover files; and from Feb. 2018 photos by Music Dir. Kenton Kravig 2018-07-07
Unsupported filetype pdf, view here.
Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Unknown 2018-07-09
Plano, Texas
St. Mark the Evangelist R.C. Church
Andover Organ Co., Opus 86, 1980 - Original Specifications
GREAT COUPLERS (Labeled; l-r; hitch-down)
8 Open Diapason 61 III / I
8 Bourdon 61 II / I
4 Octave 61
4 Chimney Flute 61 I / P
2-2/3 Twelfth 61 II / P
2 Fifteenth 61 III / P
1-3/5 Tierce 61
III Mixture 183
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
SWELL (Expressive)
8 Stopped Diapason 61
4 Spire Flute 61
2 Principal 61
1-1/3 Nineteenth 61
II Sesquialtera 122
II Cymbale 122
8 Trumpet 61
Tremolo
BOMBARDE ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
8 Trompette En Chamade 61
STOPS: 12
PEDAL REGISTERS: 20
16 Subbass 32
8 Principal 32 RANKS: 24
4 Choralbass 32
16 Posaune 32 PIPES: 1,348
NOTES
This organ has, as its heart, a II-manual, 13-rank mechanical-action instrument built
ca. 1900 by Emmons Howard of Westfield, Massachusetts for St. Monica's Catholic Church
in Methuen, Massachusetts. The church discarded this instrument around 1960 in favor of
a 2-manual, drawbar Hammond.
The organ was rebuilt by the Andover Organ Co. of Methuen as both their Opus 43, and
their R-187. It was reinstalled in a newly designed chapel in the main building of
Thompson Academy on Thompson Island located in Boston Harbor. A new case provided in
1963 was prepared to install a Pedal 8' Principal in the side flats, but the Pedal
division was omitted at that time. Only manual-to-pedal couplers were available. Plans
to complete the case and Pedal division were never carried-out.
On the Great, the 8' Principal was the original Emmons Howard Open Diapason revoiced as
was the 4' Octave. The 8' Bourdon and 4' Chimney Flute were new excepting the stopped
bass of the 8' Bourdon which was the old Melodia Stopped Bass. The III Mixture was
presumably new.
On the Swell, the 8' Aeoline was original and revoiced. The 8' Stopped Diapason was also
original and revoiced. The 4' Spitz Flute was the original 2' Flageolet with a new 4'
bass octave added. The 2' Principal, 1-1/3' Quint, and II Sesquialtera were all new. The
8' Oboe was original.
The organ survived a 1971 fire at the Academy but was subsequently damaged in 1975 by
rampaging adolescents. Much of the pipework was flattened, and the case above the impost
was splintered.
It was removed by Andover, and again rebuilt and enlarged as a new 3-manual instrument
for the Catholic Church of St. Mark the Evangelist in Plano, Texas in 1980.
According to notes in the Andover files, the Great was almost entirely new for St. Mark's
excepting the stopped bass of the 8' Bourdon, and the 1-3/5' Tierce was old/revoiced
pipework.
On the Swell, the 8' Stopped Diapason, 4' Spire Flute, 2' Principal, 1-1/3' Nineteenth,
and II Sesquialtera were all existing/revoiced pipes. The II Cymbale and Trumpet were
new with the II Cymbale replacing the former 8' Aeoline and the 8' Trumpet replacing
the original Emmons Howard 8' Oboe.
On the Pedal, the 16' Subbass is listed as 'old/revoiced' and may be the original Emmons
Howard pipes never reinstalled on Thompson Island. The 4' Choralbass is the original
Emmons Howard Great 4' Octave moved and revoiced. And both the 8' Principal and 16'
Posaune were new.
Sources: Andover files
St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church
1201 Alma Dr. (church)
1105 W. 15th St. (office)
Plano, TX. 75075
(972) 423-5600
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