THE CHURCHES OF VIRGINIA

Photography by John DeMajo

Battery Park Christian Church
4201 Brook Road at Bellevue Avenue, Richmond, VA 23227

View the church's official website at http://batteryparkchristianchurch.org
 
 
VIEW A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CHURCH HERE
 
 
 
 
 
Above: right pipe chamber. Below: Left pipe chamber
 
HISTORIC ORGAN INFORMATION AND SPECIFICATIONS
GATHERED BY DONALD TRASER

Battery Park Christian Church
Brook Road and Bellevue Avenue

Lewis & Hitchcock organ, 1973, Opus 237, 2m/21r

GREAT

1.    16      Gemshorn (from #13, bottom seven notes from #21)
2.    8      Principal
3.    8      Rohrflute (#12)
4.    8      Gemshorn (#13)
5.    4      Octave
6.    4      Gedeckt
7.    2      Super Octave
8.    III      Mixture (1 1/3)
9.    8      Trumpet
Cymbelstern

SWELL

12.   8      Rohrflute
13.   8      Gemshorn
14.   8      Celeste (TC)
15.   4      Spitzflute
16.   2      Principal
17.   1 1/3 Spitzquinte
18.   II       Cornet (2 2/3) (TC)
19.   8      Oboe
Chimes
Tremolo

PEDAL

20.   32      Faux Bourdon
21.   16      Soubass
22.   16      Gemshorn (#1)
23.   8      Principal
24.   8      Soubass (from #21)
25.   8      Gemshorn (#13)
26.   4      Principal (from #23)
27.   4      Spitzflute (#15)


28.   II      Mixture (2 2/3)
29.   16      Trumpet (from #9)


30.   8      Trumpet (#9)
31.   8       Oboe (#19)

Choir and organ are within an arch behind the pulpit.  Principal stops are exposed on either side of the front wall, separated by a window; Great on the left, Pedal on the right.  Other Great and Pedal stops are in a chamber on the right.  Swell is enclosed in a corresponding chamber on the left.  Console centered.
STANED GLASS WINDOW TOUR
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