Seabury Chime
(originally The Charles Seabury
Memorial Chimes)*Location:
Seabury Tower
Grace Episcopal Church
Lake Street between Kenilworth and
Forest Avenues
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
LL: N 41.88888, W 87.79878
- Site locator map
*Player:
(Volunteers)
*Contact:
Grace Church
924 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60301-1298
T: 708-386-8036 F: 708-386-8032
E: denden1958@runbox.com
office@graceoakpark.org*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Added semitone is flat 7th. Bass swings without chimestand disconnect. Action modified for uniform stroke with stop bar on chimestand. 2023: to be rehung on new steel frame by Smith's Bell & Clock Service
*Technical data:
Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: D E / NONE
There is one added semitone
The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
The whole instrument was installed in 1922
with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
No auxiliary mechanisms known
Tower details:
Height of console: 5 meters above ground
Height of lowest level of bells: . meters above ground
Height of highest level of bells: . meters above ground
Belfry openness: .%
Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:
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The church Website has a small photo of the tower
near the bottom of the home page.
There is a recently added page
about the project to rehang the bells.
Their Facebook presence Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.
Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.Index to all tower bell instruments in IL.
This page was built from the database on 9-Feb-24 based on textual data last updated on 2024/02/09 and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/26
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