RANDWICK : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   St.Jude's Anglican Church
   Avoca Street at Rae Street
   Randwick,
     Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
   LL: S 33.91189, E 151.24258
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*Ringers' contact(s):

   Ross Langford-Brown
   T: (02)9314 5952
   E: rlangfordbrown@yahoo.com
   - or -
   Paul Doyle
   T: (02)9389 0920   C: 0427 894 769

      Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the ANZAB Website.

*Contact:

   St.Jude Church
   100-108 Avoca Street

*Schedule:

   Practice Tuesday 1845-2000;
   service Sunday 0900-30.

*Remarks:

   New bells cast in 2000.  Old bells were
   steel, by Vickers, Sheffield; two
   tenors remain here in a cemetery
   garden, and the other six went elsewhere.

*Technical data:

   Ring of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2001
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Prior history:
     In 1865, a complete instrument was installed
       with 8 bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006
Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The ANZAB Webpage about this ring has at least a photo of the tower, and possibly additional information.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Jan-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2011/12/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/12/19


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