CANBERRA - STJ : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   Church of St.John the Baptist/Anglican
   Constitution Avenue and Anzac Park
   Reid,
     Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
   LL: S 35.28760, E 149.14025

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*Player:

   St.John's Bellringers
   Charles Body, coordinator

*Contact:

   St.John's Church Office
   GPO Box 219
   Canberra  ACT 2601
   T: 2/6248 8399   F: 02/6247 5481
   E: admin@stjohnscanberra.org

*Schedule:

   Sundays before 11:15 service;
   special occasions and most weddings.

*Technical data:

   Chime with Ellacombe stand of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1964
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

*Links:

On the church Website, the home page has a photo of the building, tower and spire.  The About Us/History page mentions of the gift of the bells in 1962.

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

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
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Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Sep-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/12/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1996/01/01

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