New Work · 2011
St Gall's Church of Ireland, Carnalea, Bangor
A modern case designed, built and installed to relate to its surroundings on the west shelf of a 1966 church, screening new heating plant where an organ had originally stood.
- Organisation
- St Gall's Church of Ireland
- Location
- Carnalea, Bangor, Co. Down
- Year
- 2011
- Type of work
- Design and construction of a new organ case
The contract
The organ previously stood on a shelf above the west door when the church was built in 1966. It was an Irish Organ Co. 3-rank extension organ which was subsequently enlarged and moved to a new case at the east end by Philip Prosser in 1987. A larger Makin electronic was bought in 1998 and the pipe organ case emptied. A new heating system used the east case and west shelf for heating units necessitating some sort of screen to disguise the west unit. As an organ originally stood there, it was decided to commission an organ case. The Pipe Organ Preservation Co. were chosen to do this and carefully designed a modern case to relate to the surroundings. Installation in the church took place in August 2011.
The work, stage by stage
Church front and back before work started
2 photographs
New organ case being erected
2 photographs
New case completed
6 photographs
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