HOUSTON - STT : USA - TX

*Location:

   St.Thomas Episcopal Church
   Jackwood Street at Endicott Lane
   Houston, Texas, USA
   LL: N 29.68498, W 95.46439

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*Ringers' contact(s):

   Richard H. Graves
   5102 Darnell Street
   Houston, TX  77096-1404
   H: (713)667-1266
   E: rgraves@compuserve.com

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*Contact:

   St.Thomas Episcopal Church
   4900 Jackwood Street
   Houston, TX  77096-1505
   T: (713)666-3111   F: (713)668-3887

*Schedule:

   Service Sunday 0930-1030;
   practice Monday 1900-2100,
   alternating weeks with St.Paul's.

*Remarks:

   Near tower are the railroad bell which
   first served this church, plus an
   anonymous Mexican bell cast in 1960.

*Technical data:

   Ring of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1971
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The church Website has a small picture of the building on the main page, but the latest redesign has eliminated all mention of the bells.

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Index to all tower bell instruments in TX.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  3-Jan-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07

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