WAGGA WAGGA : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   St.John's Anglican Church
   Church Street at Cross Street
   Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
   LL: S 35.10752, E 147.37471

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Ringers' contact(s):

   Philip Towers
   W: 2/6933 2576
   E: ptowers/@/csu DOTedu DOTau
   - or -
   Margaret Nichol
   E: anichol/@/bigpond DOTcom

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

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Practice Tu 1800-1930; svc Su 0830-0900

*Remarks:

   First 4 bells were dedicated in 1995:
     #8 = Taylor 1914
     #7 = Wm Blews & Sons 1872
     #6 = Warner 1910
     #5 = John Rudhall 1792
   all retuned by Whitechapel.

*Technical data:

   Ring of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1997
     with bells made by Whitechapel  (except for 4)
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

*Links:

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

The initial phase of this work having fewer than 8 bells, it is not indexed by foundry.
Where the final phase of 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 14-Aug-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/07/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/07/30

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