AUGUSTA - GS : USA - GA

*Location:

   Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal)
   Walton Way near Milledge Road
   Augusta, Georgia, USA
   LL: N 33.47640, W 82.01489
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*Contact:

   Jim Nord, Tower Captain
   T: (706)738-3386
   E: jnord@goodshepherd-augusta.org
   - or -
   Tom Smyth, Ringing Master
   619 Scotts Way
   Augusta, GA  30909-3253
   T: (706)733-9852
   E: tsmyth2@comcast.net, smyth@usca.edu
   - or -
   Church of the Good Shepherd
   2230 Walton Way
   Augusta, GA  30904-4302
   T: (706)738-3386
   E: rdfain@goodshepherd-augusta.org

*Schedule:

   Sunday service approx. 1000-1015;
   practice Tuesday 1700-1830 and
   Sunday 1500-1600 (youth)

*Remarks:

   Installation completed August 2004

*Technical data: 

   Ring of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2004
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The church Website has information about the bells on the Music page, and there is a Photo Album about the ringers.  The Welcome page shows the top of the original belltower (though its 1897 Meneely/Troy single bell, which replaced an 1874 bell from the same foundry, is not visible).  But there appears to be no depiction of the new belltower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American rings by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all North American rings by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American rings by year of completion.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in GA.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on  3-May-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/01/25

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