Hallelujah Tower

*Location:

   Wayfarers' Chapel (Swedenborgian)
   5755 Palos Verdes Drive South
   Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
   LL: N 33.74335, W 118.37729
   Prospective new location one mile west
   LL: N 33.74478, W 118.40620

Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Wayfarers' Chapel
   1621 West 25th Street #430
   San Pedro, CA  90732
   T: 310-377-1650 (voicemail)
   E: contactus@wayfarerschapel.org
   - or -
   Stephanie Cartozian,
     Communications Director
   T: 310-847-9330
   E: stephaniec/@/wayfarerschapel DOTorg

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Restoration of the tower in late 2009;
   restoration of chime in early 2010.
   Jul.2024: Chapel and bell tower were
   disassembled following land movement
   that led to structural instabilities.
   Bells to be salvaged and stored for
   eventual reuse.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1978
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen 
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nI    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

News article:  Bell Tower At Wayfarer's Chapel To Be Removed; the bells will be salvaged

News article:  Historic Landmark Could Soon Be Moved To New Site
It is not clear from the article whether the bells themselves were salvaged from the tower.

News article #1 (17 July 2024)

News article #2 (17 July 2024)

The chapel Website has photos which include the campanile in two sections of the Photo Gallery.  The tower is mentioned in the History timeline, but the bells are not.  Two views of the tower appear intermittently in the moving page header.

A Waymarking page for these bells has 4 photos, of the tower and the memorial plaque.

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

   This page was built from the database on 29-May-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/28
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/07/27