ADDINGTON : NEW ZEALAND

*Location:

   Anglican Church of St.Mary the Virgin
   Church Square
   Poulson Street at Grove Road
   Addington, South Island, New Zealand
   LL: S 43.54458, E 172.61782

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Mary's Anglican Church
   21 Church Square
   Addington,
     Christchurch 8024
   T: (03)338-3598
   E: hello/@/stmarysaddington DOTorg

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by James Barwell, Birmingham,
   England.  Freestanding tower.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1907
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2011

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building and the tower on the home page.  The origin of the bells is told on the second page of the history, but there are no details of the bells or the tower.

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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 New Zealand.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 22-Oct-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2011/04/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2011/04/30

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