NEWARK - SHC : USA - NJ

*Location:

   Sacred Heart RC Church (Vailsburg) 
   481 Sanford Avenue 
   Newark, New Jersey, USA

*Contact:

   Sacred Heart Catholic Church 
   481 Sanford Avenue 
   Newark, NJ  07106-1697 
   T: (973)373-9790   F: (973)374-4047 
   E: shvailsburg@intac.com

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

A photo and history are on a Newark tour site.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
These maps also show the locations of the chimes in St.Patrick's Pro-Cathedral, St.John's Church, St.Aloysius Church (not on map 2) and Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (all Roman Catholic).

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NJ.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/08/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/20

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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