St Mark's Anglican Church
Menangle Street West, Picton

Woodsworth & Co. (Leeds, England) c.1889-89 (2/8 mechanical)

From SOJ March 1978, Spring 2000:

Edmund Blacket, the distinguished 19th century Sydney architect, designed St. Mark's Church, Picton. The first section of the nave was opened in 1857; this was lengthened in 1872 and transepts were added in 1886 by Blacket's sons. The present organ is by Wordsworth & Co. Leeds, and is installed in the south transept. It remains unaltered from the original. A catalogue of organs built by Wood, Wordsworth & Co, Leeds, mentions two organs for Australia -- one for a Captain Lasseter, and the other for an Independent Chapel, Sydney. Which one of these is now at Picton one cannot say. The case is another essay in pipe-rack design.

Great Open Diapason Stopped Flute Harmonic Flute Swell Geigen Principal Lieblich Gedackt Gemshorn Oboe Pedal Bourdon Couplers Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal

8 8 4 8 8 4 8 16

TC

Mechanical action

Compass 58/30
Lever Swell pedal

Photos supplied by Trevor Bunning May 2006