*Location:

   St.John's Anglican Church
   Toorak & Orrong Roads
   Toorak,
     Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
   LL: S 37.84195, E 145.01423

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.John's Anglican Church
   86 Clendon Road
   Toorak  VIC 3142
   T: 9826 1765
   E: inquiries@saintjohnstoorak.org
      enquiries@saintjohnstoorak.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Chime, mechanism unknown.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1927
     with bells made by Whitechapel  
   Prior history:
     In 1920, the instrument was begun with  8 bells
       by an unknown maker
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

On the church Website, there is an old drawing of the building on the Our Church page, and a photo of the tower on the Worship page.  The Restoration Appeal page has a larger photo of the tower, from the front, and the Weddings page has a photo of one bell.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unidentified bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/09/10
   and on technical data last updated on 1990/12/28