*Location:

   Shove Chapel
   The Colorado College
   1000 North Nevada Avenue
     (near Cache la Poudre Street)
   Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
   LL: N 38.84786, W 104.81265

Site locator map

*Player:

   (not applicable)

*Contact:

   Colorado College
   14 East Cache La Poudre St.
   Colorado Springs, CO  80903
   T: 719-389-6700
   E: president @ coloradocollege DOTedu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Gift of trustee Eugene Percy Shove.
   The original G&J tower clock, now
   disused, remains in the tower.
   (Shove rhymes with grove.)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  5 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G# in the bass octave
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1931
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

On the college Website there is a page about the chapel in the campus tour.  It has a slide show with a historic photo of the bells at the foundry, ready for shipment, and photos of the chapel.  The bells are mentioned in the text. A newspaper article gives an extensive history and description of this clock chime.

The hour bell is a great bell, and more information can be found in its description.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in CO.

   This page was built from the database on  1-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/07/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2015/10/03