Knox Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
1855 Lorne Street
Regina, SK, CA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
After June 30, 1912 - Church damaged by Tornado (Photograph from an archival source: Wikimedia Commons, submitted by The Zach/The Zach)
1907 - View of the rest of the church interior with wraparound balcony and stained glass windows. (Photograph from an archival source: Peel's Prairie Provinces, submitted by The Zach/The Zach)
1907 - Organ in chancel (Photograph from an archival source: Peel's Prairie Provinces, submitted by The Zach/The Zach)
1906 - Church Building (Photograph from an archival source: Wikimedia Commons, submitted by The Zach/The Zach)
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Main
Notes
2020-06-01 - Identified through photographs in the Knox-Met church archives as well as the Regina Public Library.
This organ had an interesting asymmetrical arrangement of the facade pipes. It was destroyed on the afternoon of June 30, 1912 by the Regina Cyclone, a tornado that devastated the downtown core.
Although the church building was quickly repaired, it would be another 11 years before this organ's successor, Casavant's opus 992, would be put in. -The Zach
2023-10-08 - From the Regina *Leader-Post* (October 13, 1923): "With a new organ installed into Knox Presbyterian Church, Regina, which promises to be one of the musical, architectural and mechanical masterpieces of Western Canada, the old instrument, after 60 years of active service in various parts of Canada, including 16 years in Regina, passes, not into the discard, but to a still further term of usefulness in another city church--Grace Church ... The unusually eventful life of the little sextagenarian instrument now being removed began in 1863 at a Toronto church. Seventeen years later, in 1880, it came west and was installed in Knox church, Winnipeg, then at the corner of Fort Street and Portage Avenue. Three years after it was again removed and set up in Knox Hall, Hargrave Street, in the same city. In 1885 it was moved into the new building at the corner of Ellis and Donald Street, where it remained for 22 years. Its journeyings across Canada were resumed in 1907 when it came to Regina and wass again set up in the present Knox church. In 1912, with portions of the building toppling around it, it weathered the cyclone which hewed a pathway of destruction right across the center of the city, passing on both sides of the historic instrument itself. Now it has gone again: this time to find a home in a Church of England chancel. -Andrew Henderson
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