SAINT BENEDICT : USA - OR

*Location:

   The Tower of the Visitation
   Mount Angel Abbey
   St.Benedict, Oregon, USA
     (off East College Street, 
     Mount Angel, Oregon, USA)
   LL: N 45.05698, W 122.77520

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*Contact:

   Mount Angel Abbey
   One Abbey Drive
   St.Benedict, OR  97373
   - or -
   Mount Angel Abbey Retreat House
   T: (503)845-3025   F: (503)845-3027
   E: retreat@mtangel.edu

*Schedule:

   Six times daily, from 0530 to 1930

*Remarks:

   Tower constructed in 2007; bells named
   and dedicated 30 Oct.; bass A 8030
   lbs, C,D,F,G,A,C, treble D 407 lbs;
   6 basses motor-swung, 2 trebles fixed;
   made in the Netherlands.
   Supersedes 4 by Henry Stuckstede Bell
   Foundry Co., St.Louis, 1928, (approx.
   F#-, B/Bb, C#-, F#-) which remain
   on premises.

*Technical data:

   Motor-swung peal of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the bass octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     A D   /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2007
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

The abbey Website has a webcam monitoring the construction of the bell tower; the 12-hour archive shows a range of photos of the tower.  But the bells aren't mentioned elsewhere.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unidentified bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in OR.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  1-Jan-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/01/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/01/01

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