TOWNSVILLE : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   Sacred Heart Cathedral
   270 Stanley Street, at Willis Street
   Townsville, Queensland, Australia
   LL: S 19.25896, E 146.81187
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish
   28 Ingham Road
   Townsville, West End  4810
   T: 4771 4461   F: 4771 4130
   E: cathedralparish@tsv.catholic.org.au

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1920
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2011
*Links:

The cathedral page on the diocesan Website has no photo of the building; a related tour page covers only the interior. 

A heritage page has a Google locator map which may offer a street view; but the description of the building is wrong.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel 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  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2011/04/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2011/04/30
*Photos:

(none available)


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