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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1605 (1938)

St. James Anglican Church
303 Cordova St. E.
Vancouver, BC, CA

Images

1950's - Original console interior (Photograph by William J. Bunch, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1950's - Original console (Photograph by William J. Bunch, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1950's - Facade from main floor (Photograph by William J. Bunch, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1950's - Sanctuary interior showing organ in left side transept and console in rear gallery (Photograph by William J. Bunch, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2016-04-16 - Chamber grillework and pipe facade (Photograph by P. J. Janson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
27 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2020-01-09 - The building for this Anglo-Catholic parish is a unique but successful and interesting blend of Art Deco, Romanesque Revival, Byzantine Revival, and Gothic Revival architecture; the organ is located in a transept and the choir in the rear gallery; the nave is not long, so the arrangement works. In the 1940s a 3-rank gallery division was added. From the church website: In 1963, Casavant Frères proposed a new scheme for the organ based on developments in organ building after World War II; however, cost prohibited this from taking place. Water from a leaking roof became a problem such that, in the late 1980s, a significant renovation of the organ was necessitated. This work incorporated some of the ideas presented by the builder in 1963. In 2003 a complete overhaul of the console was completed by Casavant. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded

    Vancouver, British Columbia
    St. James Anglican Church

    Casavant   Op. 1605   1938   3/28
    _______________________________________________

    GREAT                      SWELL

16' Bourdon          68     8' Open Diapason     68
 8' Open Diapason    68     8' Stopped Diapason  68
 8' Hohl Flute       68     8' Viola da Gamba    68
 8' Gemshorn         68     8' Voix Celeste      61
 4' Principal        68     4' Flauto Traverso   68
 4' Harmonic Flute   68     4' Violina           68
 2' Fifteenth        61    II  Grave Mixture    122 *
 8' Tromba           68    16' Contra Fagotto    68
    Super                   8' Cornopean         68
                            8' Oboe              68
    CHOIR                      Tremulant
                               Sub
 8' Geigen Principal 68        Super
 8' Melodia          68
 8' Dulciana         68        PEDAL
 4' Lieblich Flute   68
 2' Flautino         61    16' Open Diapason     32
 8' Clarinet         68    16' Bourdon           32
    Tremulant              16' Gedeckt           SW
    Sub                     8' Octave            12
    Super                   8' Stopped Flute     12
                           16' Trombone          32
 *  12-15                  16' Fagotto           SW

     [Received from Jeff Scofield January 9, 2020]

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