click on images to enlarge Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal) 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10128 http://heavenlyrest.org Chapel of the Beloved Disciple Organ Specifications: ►II/14 Austin Organs, Inc. Op. 1874 (rev. 1962) ►II/14 Austin Organs, Inc. Op. 1874 (1929) See also the organ in the Church. The Chapel of the Beloved Disciple was dedicated by Bishop William T. Manning, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, the rector, on Sunday, June 23, 1929. It was named for the former church of the same title, founded in 1870 at 67 East 89th Street to serve residents of the Home for Indigent Christian Females, and financed by philanthropist Caroline Talman. In 1925, the Church of the Heavenly Rest, then located on Fifth Avenue at 45th Street, merged with the Church of the Beloved Disciple, after which services for the combined churches were held at the 89th Street church for four years while the present church was being built. The chapel was built with funds from the sale of the Church of the Beloved Disciple to the congregation of the Harlem Reformed Church. The architects of the chapel were Mayers, Murray & Phillip, who also designed the church complex. A cloistered gate opening on Fifth Avenue to the south of the church was the original entry to the chapel's narthex. The interior of the 200-seat chapel is in the English decorative Gothic style, with stenciled designs on the mottled plaster walls, and also on the ceiling and roof trusses. The small chancel features a reredos of opus sectile, executed in the Powell Studios of London, and communion rails of bronze supported by angel figures. The floor is of Southern flagstone in russet tone. At the back is a small choir gallery and the organ.                 Austin Organs Inc. Hartford, Conn. – Opus 1874 (1962) Electro-pneumatic action 2 manuals, 23 stops, 14 ranks In 1962, Austin Organs reconfigured the original 1929 Austin organ to the following specification:                 Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed 8   Gedeckt 73 2   Blockflöte 61 8   Dulciana 73     Mixture III ranks 183 4   Principal SW 8   Trompette 61 4   Flute Harmonique 73     Chimes [A22-E41] * 20 bells           Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed 16   Gedeckt [ext. GT] 12 4   Flute Harmonique GT 8   Spitz Principal 73 16   Basson [ext.] 12 8   Gedeckt GT 8   Hautbois 61 8   Dulciana GT 4   Hautbois 12 8   Voix Celeste [TC] 61 8   Vox Humana [sep. box] 61 4   Principal 73   Tremulant               Pedal Organ – 32 notes, enclosed 16   Subbass 32 16   Basson SW 16   Gedeckt SW 8   Hautbois SW 8   Gedeckt GT                         * moved from Möller, Op. 1808 (1914) in Church of the Beloved Disciple                 Austin Organ Company Hartford, Conn. – Opus 1874 (1929) Electro-pneumatic action 2 manuals, 17 stops, 11 ranks A small two-manual organ was installed by the Austin Organ Company behind an oak screen in the choir gallery of the chapel. The contract dated March 4, 1929 (fourteen months after the contract for the much larger organ in the church) shows that the organ cost $8,000. All of the pipes are enclosed in a single expression box. Two memorial stops, the Concert Harp and Chimes, were moved from the Möller organ, Op. 1808 (1914) in the Church of the Beloved Disciple on 89th Street.                 Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed with Swell 8   Open Diapason 73 4   Flute Harmonic 73 8   Gedackt 73 8   Corno d'Amore 73 8   Salicional 73   Chimes [A22-E41] * 20 bells 8   Dulciana 73               Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed 8   Violin Diapason 73 4   Flute Harmonique GT 8   Gedackt GT 8   Oboe 73 8   Salicional GT 8   Vox Humana {sep. box] 61 8   Dulciana GT 8   Harp [G1-G56] * 49 bars 8   Voix Celeste [TC] 61   Tremolo             Pedal Organ – 32 notes, enclosed 16   Sub Bass 32 8   Flute [from Gedackt] — 16   Lieblich Gedeckt [ext.] 12                     * moved from M.P. Möller Organ, Op. 1808 (1914) in Church of the Beloved Disciple                 Sources:      Church of the Heavenly Rest archives; courtesy Molly Pickering Grose.      Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.      "Manning to Dedicate New Chapel Today," The New York Times, June 23, 1929.      Odell Company Opus List, compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy David Scribner.      Stern, Robert A.M., Gregory Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins. New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars. New York City: Rizzoli International Publications, 1987. Photos:      Lawson, Steven E. Church exterior, Chapel interior, Austin Organ console and screen.                 | NYC AGO Home Page | Back to NYC Organ Project List |