BECONTREE : ENGLAND -ES

*Location:

   St.Alban Parish Church
   Vincent and Urswick Roads
   Becontree,
     Dagenham, Essex, England
   OS Ref. TQ 480 841
   LL: N 51.53658, E 0.13265

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1933
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all British Isles chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in England.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 22-Jun-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/06/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/07/15

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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