Better Pipe Organ Database

Parsons Pipe Organ Builders Opus 29 (2011)

St. George's Episcopal Church
905 Princess Anne Street
Fredericksburg, VA

Images

2014-12-28 - Organ Case and Facade Pipes (Photograph by James Layton/Database Manager)

2024-07-15 - Console (Colton Barber/Colton Barber)

2024-07-15 - Facade Upclose (Colton Barber/Colton Barber)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
37 stops
40 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2011-03-12 - Identified through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ is mostly mechanical action, with 16' ranks on manuals on unit chests and duplexed to Pedal. Some ranks retained from previous instrument. [Information from church and builders websites) -Database Manager

Stoplist

The Americant Organist, October 2011: Volumne 45, No. 10 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

GREAT (I)
16' Praestant
8'  Principal
8'  Harmonic Flute
8'  Gamba
4'  Octave
4'  Spire Flute
2-2/3' Twelfth
2'  Super Octave
1-3/5' Tierce
    Mixture IV
8'  Trumpet
4'  Clarion (prep.)
8'  Festival Trumpet (Pos.)
    Chimes
    Swell to Great
    Positive to Great

SWELL (III) (expressive)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt
8'  Geigen Principal
8'  Bourdon
8'  Viole de Gambe (prep.)
8'  Voix Celeste
4'  Principal
4'  Harmonic Flute
2'  Doublette
    Plein Jeu IV
16' Bassoon
8'  Trumpet
8'  Oboe
4'  Clarion (prep.)

POSITIVE (II)
8'  Viola
8'  Gedeckt
8'  Spitz Flute
8'  Flute Celeste (prep.)
4'  Principal
4'  Koppel Flute
2-2/3' Nasard
2'  Block Flute
1-3/5' Tierce
1-1/3' Quint (prep.)
    Scharff III
8'  Cromorne
8'  Festival Trumpet
4'  Festival Trumpet (ext.)
    Swell to Positive

PEDAL
32' Contra Bourdon
16' Open Wood
16' Praestant (Gt.)
16' Bourdon
16' Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw.)
8'  Octave
8'  Open Flute (ext.)
8'  Bourdon (ext.)
8'  Gedeckt (Sw.)
4'  Choral Bass (ext.)
4'  Gedackt (Sw.)
    Mixture IV (prep.)
32' Contra Bombarde (prep.)
16' Posaune
16' Bassoon (Sw.)
8'  Trumpet (ext.)
4'  Clarion (ext.)
    Great to Pedal
    Swell to Pedal
    Positive to Pedal

ACCESSORIES
Tremulant:  Great and Positive
Tremulant:  Swell
Flexible Wind
Cymbelstern (prep.)
Nightingale (prep.)

 [Received from Daniel Hancock 2011-11-02.]

Websites

St. George's Episcopal Church Fredericksburg, VA [Builder's web site] - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)