BRISTOL : USA - RI

*Location:

   Chime tower
   Parish House garden
   St.Michael's Church (Episcopal)
   Hope and Church Streets
   Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
   LL: N 41.66881, W 71.27607 z19

   Trinity Episcopal Church
   Bristol, Rhode Island, USA

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*Player:

   Alexander S. Bauhart, Minister of Music,
     Organist and Choirmaster
   E: bauhart@aya.yale.edu

*Contact:

   St.Michael's Church
   399 Hope Street
   Bristol, RI  02809-1803
   - or -
   PO Box 414
   Bristol, RI  02809-0414
   T: (401)253-7717  F: (401)253-7785
   E: rector@stmichaelsbristolri.org
      music@stmichaelsbristolri.org

*Schedule:

   Daily (automatically) 1205-08 and
   1810-13.

*Remarks:

   Original 10 bells variously dated 1897,
   1899, 1900; added semitone was the
   flat 7th.  Sharp 4th added 1949.
   Tower of parish house (formerly chapel)
   has an 1877 Frederick Fuller bell,
   the eighth bought by this parish.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----
   The instrument was enlarged in 1988
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Prior history:
     In 1961, the instrument was enlarged to 12 bells
       by Petit & Fritsen
       (1 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
     In 1949, the instrument was enlarged to 11 bells
       by Meneely/Wvlt
     In 1899, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The church Website is defunct.  It used to open with a photo of the church building and its clock tower, which contains a 3200# bell cast in 1891 by Blake Bell Co. of Boston, MA.  The freestanding chime tower was pictured on the Parish House page of the virtual tour.
The Parish House tower contains a bell weighing 826#, cast in 1877 by Frederick Fuller of Providence, RI.

Where the initial phase of this work (1897) lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.
Where the second phase of this work (1899-1900) lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.
Where the third phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, 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 RI.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 29-Jul-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/07/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/26

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