BROOKLYN - STTH : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Thomas' Episcopal Church 
   Bushwick Avenue at Cooper Street 
   Brooklyn, New York, USA

*Contact:

   St.Thomas Church 
   1405 Bushwick Avenue 
   Brooklyn, NY  11207-1408 
   T: (718)452-2332   F: (718)452-1355

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells (chimola)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1924
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

A parish Webpage includes a drawing of the church.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
Map 1 also shows (when zoomed out) the locations of the chimes at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, Reformed Church of Flatbush, St.Ann Episcopal Church / Packer Institute, St.Bartholomew Episcopal Church (chimola), St.Brigid Catholic Church, St.Mark Lutheran Church, St.Peter Lutheran Church and St.Teresa Catholic Church. (Maps 2 and 3 show only the nearest neighbor(s).)

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

Index to North American chimolas.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 28-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/07/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/08

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

[GCNA Home Page] [Site data top page] [Credits and Disclaimers] [Feedback]

Please send comments or questions to csz_stl@swbell.net