St. Rita Parish (Catholic): Rear Gallery
158 Mammoth Rd.
Lowell, MA
Images
2020 - Exterior (Photograph by St. Rita Facebook page, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2014 - Interior (Photograph by St. Rita Facebook page, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2014 - Nave, Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by St. Rita Facebook page, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2014 - Building exterior (Photograph by St. Rita Facebook page, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Facade and pipe chamber at gallery level (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Console (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Console nameplate (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Church interior (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Organ in raer gallery (Andrew Scanlon/Scanlon Andrew)
2024-02-24 - Altar (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Side chapel (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-02-24 - Side chapel (Andrew Scanlon/Scanlon Andrew)
Consoles
Gallery
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 2 manuals
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: None
Notes
2022-08-06 - from "Organs of Greater Lowell" by Robert J. Reich
St. Rita's RC. Shrine, organized 1912 as St. Columba's R.C.Church, 162 Mammouth Rd., name changed 1925.
Organ: Hook & Hastings #1425, 1889, 2m, 17reg., 10r, from New Presbyterian, Winston, N.C., electrified by ?; not in use for many years but repaired and again in use since c1994 having miraculously survived two electronic substitutes. One of two organs in R.C. churches in Lowell still in regular use.
-Andrew Scanlon
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