*Location:
St.Peter's Church Windsor Street at Church Walk Chertsey, Surrey, England OS Ref. TQ 042 670 LL: N 51.39243, W 0.50389
*Contact:
St.Peter's Shared Church Windsor Street Chertsey, Surrey KT16 8AT T: 01932 570155 E: office@stpeterschertsey.org.uk - or - E: bells@stpeterschertsey.org.uk
*Schedule:
Cambridge (Westminster) quarters from 1892 clock by Smiths Midland Steam Clock Works, Derby; tunes from 1893 drum by J.W.Benson of London, at 0800, 1300, 1700, 2200. Curfew rung by hand at 2000 Mon-Fri, from Michaelmas to Lady Day. Ringing practice 2000 Wednesdays.
*Remarks:
Bells by a variety of founders, c.1380-1859 (see Website). Drum winding was electrified about 1964, but all original equipment survives, so electrification could in theory be reversed.
*Technical data:
Mechanical-automatic chime of 8 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is E in the middle octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: NONE / C C
There are no added semitones
Work was done (as described in Remarks above) in 1893
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2004
*Links:
The bells being by a variety of makers, they are not indexed by foundry.
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by year of completion.
Index to all tower bell instruments in England.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 29-Aug-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/08/28 and on technical data last updated on 2010/08/28
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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