St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church: Sanctury; rear gallery
126 Franklin Street (corner of Haverhill Street)
Lawrence, MA
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1943 - Recital program 1943 Rededication (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence History Center, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1943 - 1943 organ specs from rededication booklet. Indicates what was added (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence History Center, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1948 - Interior from First Communion (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence History Center, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1943 - Console on cover of 1943 re-dedication booklet (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence History Center, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1903 - Rendering of the 1903 building (twin steeples were never built) (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence History Center, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022 - Exterior profile 2022 (Photograph by Real Estate Listing, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022 - Exterior side 2022 (Photograph by Real Estate Listing, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022 - Interior and chancel 2022 (Photograph by Real estate listing, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022 - Interior wide view 2022 (Photograph by Real Estate website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022 - Cole/McKown organ in 2022 (Photograph by Real Estate Listing, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022 - Interior and organ gallery in 2022 (Photograph by Real Estate website, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Unknown - Aerial view showing St. Anne, center. Original church left, and St. Francis Church (yellow brick) on right. St. Mary's Church at top in distance (Photograph by Unknown/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Interior from floor, rear (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Pipework (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Great division pipework (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Rose window taken from inside organ chamber. Some mechanisms visible (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Organ as seen from floor (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Interior from altar showing organ in second balcony and horseshoe balcony (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1991 - Interior picture of altar 1991. This picture was taken and distributed at the time of the 1991 closing of St. Anne's Parish (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Console, showing pedalboard and expression shoes, 1998 (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Console 1998 showing Choir and Great stop jambs (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Console, 1998 Showing Pedal and swell stop jambs (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1998 - Console in 1998 (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Unknown - St. Anne's Church, Lawrence, MA. Built 1903. Also shown on the right : the facade and steeple of the previous St. Anne's. (Private collection, courtesy of Andrew Scanlon/Database Manager)
Unknown - Organ in 2nd balcony. (Photograph courtesy of Andrew Scanlon (Before 2017)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church Interior (ca. 1948) (Photograph courtesy of Andrew Scanlon/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 31 stops
- 39 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 (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2016-04-14 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on personal knowledge of the organ.<br><br>The organ is in the rear gallery. It was given a used Aeolian-Skinner console with preparations for a sanctuary organ, and 2 ranks added in 1943 by Jason McKown. -Database Manager
2017-05-24 - Updated by Andrew Scanlon, who gave this as the source of the information: I have seen this organ many times, crawled through it, but it had been disconnected since the late 1970s or early 1980s. <br> <br>The organ still exists mostly intact, though in very poor condition. St. Anne's Parish was closed in 1991. The building was reopened for a period of 3-5 years as a Hispanic branch of St. Mary's Parish but ultimately closed again. Building has been for sale ever since. The windows, pews, and most other furniture have all been removed. Last know, the organ was still present, as witnessed by pictures and videos from Real Estate agents attempting to sell the building. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist copied from the console August 1, 1988
Lawrence, Massachusetts
St. Anne's R.C. Church
COLE CHURCH ORGAN CO., 1906
Jason McKown, 1943 - New Skinner Console
Pipe Additions & Extensions
NAVE GREAT NAVE SWELL (Expressive)
16 Diapason (tc) 49 16 Bourdon 61
8 Diapason 61 8 Diapason 70
8 Claribel Flute 61 8 Gedeckt 70
8 Gamba 61 8 Salicional 70
8 Dulciana 61 * 8 Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4 Octave 61 8 Aeoline 61 *
4 Flute 61 4 Flute 70
2 Fifteenth 61 4 Viola 70
III Mixture 183 III Mixture [Cornet] 183
Chimes (25) 8 Cornopean 70
8 Oboe 70
Great to Great 4' 8 Vox Humana 61
Tremolo
2 blank drawknobs
NAVE CHOIR (Expressive)
8 Diapason 70 Swell to Swell 16'
8 Flute [Melodia] 70 Swell Unison Off
8 Dulciana 61 Swell to Swell 4'
4 Flute [d'Amour] 70
2 Piccolo 61
8 Clarinet 70 NAVE PEDAL
Tremolo 16 Diapason 32 *
Harp (49) * 16 Bourdon 32
16 Soft Bourdon [L.G.] 32
Choir to Choir 16' 10-2/3 Quint --
Choir Unison Off 8 Octave 12 *
Choir to Choir 4' 8 Gedeckt 12
4 Octave 12 *
2 Octave 12 *
SANCTUARY GREAT 16 Trombone 32
5 blank knobs (preps) –- Chimes (Gt) --
Great to Great 4'
SANCTUARY PEDAL
16 Flute 32
SANCTUARY SWELL (Expressive) 8 Flute 12
7 blank knobs (preps) –-
Swell to Swell 16'
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4'
GALLERY COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Ped 8,4 General (Sanc.) 1 – 3
Great to Pedal 8 General (Nave) 1 – 3
Choir to Pedal 8 Swell 1 – 6
Sw to Ped (rev)
Swell to Great 16,8,4 Sw to Ped 4' (rev)
Choir to Pedal 16,8,4 Great 1 – 5
Gt to Ped (rev)
Swell to Choir 16,8,4 Choir 1 – 3
Ch – Ped (rev)
SFZ. (rev)
SANCTUARY COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal 8 A set of 4 pistons/buttons:
Great to Pedal 8 -Chancel [unlabeled]
-Sanc.
Swell to Great 16,8,4 -Nave
-Both
TOE STUDS determines what stops are control-
Pedal 1 – 5 led by the divisional pistons
Gr. to Ped. (rev)
Sw. to Ped. (rev)
Sw. to Ped. 4' (rev) COUPLER PISTONS (switches)
Ch. to Ped. (rev) Ped. to Comb. [Swell] On/Off
SFZ. (rev) Ped. to Comb. [Great] On/Off
Ped. to Comb. [Choir] On/Off
PEDAL MOVEMENTS These switches, located atop the
Swell Expression (bal.) right key cheek of each division,
Choir Expression (bal.) allow Pedal stops to be set and
Crescendo (bal.) actuates with divisional pistons
when in the 'On' position.
ACTION: E-P STOPS: 31 REGISTERS: 39 RANKS: 35 PIPES: 2,142
(inc. chimes
& harp)
NOTES
The organ is installed in the upper rear gallery behind a large pipe
fence façade with the Swell and Great side-by-side on the back wall.
But the Choir is perpendicular to the other manual divisions and placed
along the left wall and speaking across the gallery. The console is
in fixed positiotin the center with the organist facing the organ.
Two expression Pedals, the far left and the far right, have been removed
from the console. Two reversible toe studs originally on the console have
also been removed.
Stops marked with an asterisk (*) in the preceding specification were
added by Jason McKown in the 1943 rebuild and enlargement.
Sources: James R. Stettner; extant organ
St. Anne's R.C. Church
365 Haverhill St.
Lawrence, MA. 01841 Documented: August 1, 1988
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