*Location:

   First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   6th and Pecan Streets
   Texarkana, Arkansas, USA
   LL: N 33.42909, W 94.03627

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*Ringers' contact(s):

   Remica C. (Mrs. Danny) Gray,
     Tower Captain and NAG Area Rep.
   10 Cambridge Drive
   Texarkana, AR  71854-3002
   H: (870)773-3741
   E: remicag@aol.com

      Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the NAGCR Website.

*Contact:

   First Presbyterian Church
   516 Pecan Street
   Texarkana, AR  71854-5395
   T: (870)774-6453   F: (870)773-4199
   E: 1stPresbyTxk@cableone.net

*Schedule:

   Practice Thursday 1900-2030;
   service Sunday 1100-1200

*Technical data:

   Ring of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1984
     with bells made by Taylor      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of ringing room:             5 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   14 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  14 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  15%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The church Website has a photo of the building on the home page; the door to the ringing room is visible above the parapet of the arcade roof.  (That roof is reached by a steel spiral stair in the front corner of the arcade.)  There is a paragraph about the ringers on the Music Ministries page, and the installation of the bells is mentioned on the History page.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American rings by pitch/weight.
Ranking among all North American rings by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American rings by year of completion.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in AR.

   This page was built from the database on 16-Sep-18
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/06/23