DEDHAM : USA - MA

*Location:

   St.Paul's Episcopal Church 
   Village Avenue and Court Street 
   Dedham, Massachusetts, USA

*Player:

   Bernice Hunt 
   (and other volunteers from church)

*Contact:

   St.Paul's Church Office 
   59 Court Street 
   Dedham, MA  02026-4301 
   T: (781)326-4553   F: (781)326-4411 
   E: staff@stpauls-dedham.org

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1881
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The church Website has a fine photo of the tower on the home page. There is a superb page about the chime under the title "Bell Ringing." On the photo of the swinging bass bell, notice particularly the canon-retaining headstock from which the bell is suspended; this design was patented by the bellfoundry.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Sep-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/09/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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