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Carngham Uniting Church
Carngham Linton Road Snake Valley
Carngham Uniting Church:
A church which was, unusually for Victoria, wholly privately endowed (as a
memorial to the squatter Phillip Russell), and is finely built of bluestone.
Imposing as it is, the effect of the tower is somewhat marred by the inadequate
diameter of the base of the spire.
The building has an impressive interior with stone pulpit and unaltered pipe
organ by Fincham & Hobday. Classified 18.5.85 Amended Organ Statement of
Significance: A two-manual organ of 11 stops, of lavish quality, built in 1893-4
by Fincham & Hobday, remaining in a remarkable state of originality, retaining
its polished blackwood casework with double facade of ornately diapered pipes,
tubular pneumatic action, tonal scheme and pipework.
It is among the earliest Fincham instruments to survive retaining its pneumatic
action which was first introduced by the firm in the previous decade, and the
sole example known to remain utilising sliderless windchests
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