OCEAN CITY - T : USA - NJ

*Location:

   Ocean City Tabernacle 
   500 Wesley Avenue 
   Ocean City, New Jersey, USA 

   First Methodist Church 
   Sixth & Stevens Streets 
   Camden, New Jersey, USA 

   West front 
   Congressional Library Building 
   Washington, D.C., USA

*Contact:

   Ocean City Tabernacle 
   500 Wesley Avenue 
   Ocean City, NJ  08226-3982 
   T: (609)399-1915   F: (609)399-2287 
   E: octab@msn.com 
   W: www.octab.com

*Schedule:

   Summer only [resort community]

*Remarks:

   Chime was made in 1893 to celebrate 
   centennial of the U.S.Capitol (with 
   one bell for each of the 13 colonies),
   then purchased for FMC. 
   First Methodist Church building was 
   owned by Cooper Hospital, 1969-98. 

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1998
     with bells made by McShane in 1893     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

The church Website has a section about the bell tower, with full history and photographic documentation of the present installation.

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 McShane 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  9-Apr-04
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/07/27

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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