POOLE : ENGLAND -DO

*Location:

   The Transfiguration Parish Church
   Chaddesley Glen
   Canford Cliffs,
     Poole, Dorset, England
   OS Ref. SZ 055 897
   LL: N 50.69828, W 1.93040

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*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

   The Vicarage
   14 Flaghead Road
   Canford Cliffs
   Poole, Dorset  BH13 7JW
   T: 01202/700341
   E: jeremy.oakes@virgin.net

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1957
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

A church Website has a sketch of the building. 
An alternate church Website has a similar sketch; the Gallery page mentions the bells, and there is a local locator map.

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 12-Oct-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/10/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/07/15

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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