Better Pipe Organ Database

John Baker (ca. 1859)

Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
305 Buncombe Street
Edgefield, SC

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2014-04-30 - Rear gallery case (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Left registers (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Right registers (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Keyboard (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Casework-missing nameplate (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Keydesk hinged doors (note Tiger Oak wood) (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Mechancial action and air reservoir partially visible (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

2014-04-30 - Notation, found in more than one place on organ (Photograph by Brad Cunningham/Database Manager)

Consoles

Keydesk

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
8 stops
10 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 54 notes
Pedal compass: 13 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2014-05-05 - Updated through online information from Brad Cunningham. -- Original hand-operated bellows replaced with Kinetic Organ Blower. However, discarded original bellows and parts related to its operation are still on location, next to the electric blower. Name plate on organ was stolen by "one of the top organ historians, and will be returned if the instrument is restored." This information was reported in a letter written by Morris Spearman of Spearman-Hawkinson Inc., to St. Mary Catholic Church 11 March 1996. This correspondence and other correspondence related to the removal of the nameplate without knowledge of the Diocese of Charleston, is on file with St. Mary Catholic Church. -Database Manager

2024-11-07 - The organ is still located at St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception in Edgefield, SC. Efforts are being made to acquire grants to restore the organ. Church Address: 305 Buncombe St, Edgefield, SC 29824. There has not been any work done on the organ since Brad Cunningham's entry from 2014, nor has there been any structural damage to the instrument from weather related causes, settling of the building, etc. Information received online from Aaron Dixon on 2024-10-30 -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Edgefield, South Carolina
St. Mary Catholic Church

John Baker, date/opus no. not verified

Left registers
Viola de Gamba
Open Diapason
Stop'd Diapason Treble
Stop'd Diapason Bass
[Blank] facia is missing

Right registers
Bellows
Principal
Twelfth
Fifteenth
Pedal Pipes


 [Received from Brad Cunningham 2014-05-01.]