Atlanta, Georgia

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Builder:        Skinner Organ Company
   Year:        1922
   Opus:        359
   
No. manuals:    3
No. stops:      38
No. ranks:      29
No. pipes:      1,932

             GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
         16' Bourdon             17 PED          16' Bourdon             73
          8' Diapason            61               8' Diapason            73
          8' Clarabella          61               8' Gedeckt             73
          8' Gedeckt             SW               8' Salicional          73
          8' Aeoline             SW               8' Voix Celeste        73
          8' Unda Maris          SW               8' Flauto Dolce        73
          4' Octave              61               8' Flute Celeste       73
          4' Flute               SW               4' Flute               73
          8' French Horn (in SW) 61               2' Flautino            61
          8' Cornopean           SW             III  Mixture            183
          8' Flugel Horn         SW               8' Flügel Horn         73
                                                  8' Cornopean           73
             CHOIR ORGAN                          8' Vox Humana          73
          8' Diapason            73                  Tremolo
          8' Concert Flute       73
          8' Dulciana            73                  PEDAL ORGAN
          4' Flute               73              16' Diapason            32
      2 2/3' Nazard              73              16' Bourdon             32
      1 3/5' Tierce              61              16' Echo Bourdon        SW
      1 1/7' Septieme            61               8' Octave              12
          8' Clarinet            73               8' Gedeckt             12
             Tremolo                              8' Still Gedeckt       SW
          8' Harp (TC)           pf
          4' Celesta             pf

Source: Allen Kinzey

Notes: Sacred Heart parish was founded in 1880. The original church, known as Saints Peter and Paul, was a small wooden building located twelve blocks west of the present location. When the area became too commercial, parishioners made plans to purchase a new site and build a church "at some distance from the business district."

In 1897, an Atlanta architect, W. T. Downing, was commissioned to design the new church. In keeping with the then-popular devotion to the Sacred Heart, the name of the church was changed to The Sacred Heart of  Jesus. The architectural style is basically French Romanesque with some variations and additions. On May 13, 1976, the Church of the Sacred Heart was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in  recognition of its "artistically significant architecture."

The Skinner was essentially a rebuild of the church's unidentified Hook & Hastings. The 1901 facade has remained in place, being recently restored and re-stenciled for use with the 3/46 Casavant installed in 2002. The two-rank Flute Celeste from the Skinner was retained for the Casavant.

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