Name of institution	St. Matthew's Anglican Church
Type of institution	Church
Street Address	Stirling Square
City	Guildford
State	Western Australia
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Country	Australia
Name of building	St. Matthew's Anglican Church
Name of room	Church
Dates of the building	1873
Architect’s and builder’s names	Built by Matthew Wallace to the designs of F. Sherwood.
Special architectural features	St Matthew's Church is located on the site of the earlier church of 1860.  The building is in the Gothic style;  the west end includes a porch and a bellcote surmounting the gable.
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Date of previous organs	1875-79
Detail of previous organs	Robert Cecil Clifton organ of 2 manuals, 9 stops (spare slide), 2 couplers, tracker action.  Built for St. John's Anglican Church, Fremantle. GREAT Open Diapason 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Principal 4' Octave 2' . SWELL Hohl Flute 8' 8' 39 pipes 8' 39 pipes 8' 12 pipes Wald Flute 4' . PEDAL Sub Bass  16' .
Dates when key work has been undertaken
Dates of any moves that have taken place	Installed 1884 St Matthew's Anglican Church, Guildford. Removed, overhauled and installed at St Aidan's Church, Claremont, 1910-1912 by J.E. Dodd, Adelaide.
Variations from original design of organ
Information on previous organs	This instrument has the distinction of being the first organ built in Western Australia by a Western Australian builder. Robert Cecil Clifton was then a clerk in the Lands Department of the Western Australian Public Service.
Information about comparable instruments to previous organs
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Present organ
Type of installation	Organ Chamber
Case description	Gothic case, shallow in design but well detailed.   Central corbel holds the three lowest Diapason pipes.
Placement in room	Right Transept
Builder's name	J.E. Dodd, Adelaide
Opus number
Date of completion/installation	Contract let 1905 Organ completed and installed 1911
Construction materials
Number of manuals	Two (2)
Key compasses	CC - aaa
Number of keys	58
Key material
Pedal compass	CC - f
Number of pedals	30
Pedalboard type	Concave and radial (not original)
Pedalboard material
Type of chests
Type of key action	Electro-pneumatic
Type of stop action	Electro-pneumatic
Couplers	Swell sub-octave, Swell super-octave, Swell to Great, Swell to Pedal, Great to Pedal.
Tremulants	Swell tremulant not operating
Accessories	Balanced Swell pedal, crescendo pedal, combination pistons to manuals and toe levers to pedal.  All, except Swell pedal, are inoperable.
Console type	Stopkey console
Stop label material
Placement	Integral with organ case
General design
Playing aids	Swell  expression pedal Manual pistons and fot levers for mp and ff not operating Original crescendo pedal not operating
Divisions	Great, Swell, Pedal
Wind pressures
Stop list	GREAT Open Diapason 8' Lieblich Gedact Replaced original Claribel.   8' Principal 4' Suabe Flute 4' Fifteenth Not original, from cut down Dulciana 2' . SWELL Geigen Diapason 8' Hohl Flute 8' Viole d'Orchestre 8' Flauto Traverso 4' Oboe 8' . PEDAL Bourdon 16' .
Total number of speaking stops	11
Total number of ranks	11
Total number of pipes	610
Dates when key work has been undertaken on current organ	The contract for the organ was given to J E Dodd in 1905 and built in 1911 by J.E. Dodd with a tubular pneumatic action, according to vestry records.  Some information within the organ shows items dating from 1905. Paul F. Hufner carried out an electrification of the primary pneumatic stage of the key action in 1951 and at some stage after this date the original wind system was replaced with a single–rise regulator.  In the 1970s the pneumatic slider motors were replaced by SLIC slider motors by a teacher at Guildford Grammar School.  In 1994, F.J. Larner & Co. constructed a new mechanical action for the organ, although this was never completed owing to lack of funds.  At this time, the original Great Claribel was replaced by a Lieblich Gedact of Dodd manufacture and came from a 1928 organ salvaged from Sydney.  The original Dulciana was cut down to provide a Fifteenth. In 2003–04 Patrick Elms & Co. refurbished the organ using the original restored slider chests with a new electric action and refitting of the console with replica Dodd stopkeys of the period.  The pattern for the stop keys was taken from the original stop rail of St Mary's Cathedral, which had used the same unusual style of stop keys.  The Dodd sound of the organ has been preserved.  All of the existing Dodd components were reused while missing parts have been remade in the Dodd style – new winding, slider motors, Great windchest pneumatics and console fittings. In 2010 Patrick Elms & Co fitted an electronic transmission system to activate the super and sub Swell couplers that had been inoperable for many years (possibly since the 1951 rebuild). There remains the restoration of the Swell tremulant, crescendo pedal, combination pistons to manuals and toe levers to pedal.
Dates of any moves that have taken place to current organ	The organ has not been moved.
Information on current organ
Comparable instruments to current organ	Angaston Uniting Church, SA. St Mary The Virgin Anglican Church, Burra, SA. St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tanunda, SA. Parkside Baptist Church, SA St John the Evangelist, Adelaide, SA. Pilgrim Uniting Church, Launceston, TAS. St Thomas the Apostle, Claremont, WA Ross Memorial Church, West Perth, WA. St Brigid's Catholic Church, West Perth, WA St George's College Chapel, Crawley, WA
Current status	In very good condition
Assessment of organ	The organ is a fine example of a Dodd instrument in almost original condition.
Other organs by this builder	There are many existant Dodd organs in Australia
Photographs	Photographs of organ by Bruce Duncan and Mark Quarmby. Photograph of J E Dodd from OHTA web site.
Technical documents	Details of the organ and building from OHTA Conference Book 2004.
General documents	Refer to Gathered Fragments, Leon D. Cohen, 1979, for biographical and other detail of Robert Cecil Clifton.
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Supporting information	Organ Historical Trust of Australia Conference Book, October 2004.
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Document control	Original entries J R Elms, OAM, Gazetteer of Western Australian Pipe Organs, 1971, 1999,2003 and 2004. Organ Historical Trust of Australia Conference Book, October 2004. This entry D B Duncan 05 January 2009. Updated information from Patrick Elms 5th May 2010. Updates and additional information from John Beaverstock 5 October 2010