WYKE : ENGLAND -YW

*Location:

   St.Mary the Virgin Parish Church
   Green Lane, west of St.Mary's Avenue
   Wyke, Yorkshire/West Riding, England
   OS Ref. SE 152 267
   LL: N 53.73646, W 1.77196

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (County is wrong; other data are correct.)

*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Mary's Church
   Green Lane
   Wyke, Bradford  BD12 8QW

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th & flat 7th

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The ACNY page for this church has a tiny photo of the building.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 12-Oct-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/10/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/07/15

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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