THE CHURCHES OF RICHMOND
Photography by John G. DeMajo

 

SAINT MARK EPISCOPAL CHURCH
520 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23221
 
 
ORGAN INFORMATION AND HISTORY

Saint Marks's Episcopal Church
520 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23221

Hall organ, c. 1923, 3m/32(?)r

GREAT

16      Bourdon
8     First Diapason
8     Second Diapason
8      Dulciana
8     Grosse Flute
8      Quintadena
8      Clarabella
4     Octave
4     Flue D'Amour (sic)
8     Tuba
Chimes
Tremolo

SWELL

16      Lieblich Gedeckt
8     Horn Diapason


8      Stopped Diapason
8     Viola d'Orchestre
8     Vox Celeste
8     Echo Salicional
4     Flute Traverso
3     Nazard
8      Cornopeon
8      Orchestral Oboe
8     Horn Oboe
8     Vox Humana
Tremolo

CHOIR

8     Violin Diapason
8      Melodia
8     Flute Celeste
8      Dulciana
8     Unda Maris
4     Flute Harmonic
2       Piccolo
8      Clarinet
8     Vox Humana
Chimes

PEDAL

32       Resultant
16    Double Open Diapason
16      Bourdon
16      Lieblich Gedeckt
8     Grosse Flute
8      Gedeckt
8     Cello
16    Tuba

The organ was located in a single chamber on the right wall of the chancel.  The stoplist is copied from the back of a 1926 recital program which did not indicate borrows and extensions.  On the slightly smaller and extant Hall organ at Saint Andrew's, one flute on the Swell was a unit and extended to three other pitches.  The Pedal division probably had two or three ranks with all other stops borrowed or extended.  The Saint Andrew's organ also has some Great ranks enclosed in the Choir box.  Junked when replaced by Hillgreen, Lane.

 

Hilgreen, Lane organ, Opus 1282, 1965, 2m/18r
Antiphonal division by Schantz, 1994, 7r

GREAT

1.    8      Principal
2.    8      Koppelflote (enclosed)
3.    8      Erzahler (enclosed)
4.    4      Octave
5.    IV      Fourniture
6.    8      Krummhorn (enclosed)
7.          Chimes


Tremulant

SWELL

8.    8      Gedeckt
9.    8      Viola Pomposa
10.   8      Viola Celeste (TC)
11.   4      Spitzflote
12.   2      Italian Principal
13.   1 1/3 Larigot
14.   8      Trompette
15.   4      Hautbois
Tremulant

PEDAL

16.   32      Resultant
17.   16      Contrebasse
18.   16      Bourdon (from #8)
19.   8      Principal (from #17)
20.   8      Gedeckt (#8)
21.   5 1/3 Gedecktquinte (from #8)
22.   4      Principal (from #17)
23.   4      Gedecktflote (from #8)
24.   16      Contretrompette (from #14)
25.   8      Trompette (#14)

The organ is located in a chamber on the right side of the chancel and speaks into the chancel.  The Principal chorus of the Great division is exposed in front.

ANTIPHONAL

8      Principal               61 pipes
4     Octave                  61 pipes
IV      Mixture                 244 pipes
8      Trumpet en chamade      61 pipes

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