*Location:

   Southwest tower
   Battell Chapel
   Yale University
   College & Elm Streets
   New Haven, Connecticut, USA
   LL: N 41.30950, W 72.92778

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Office of the Chaplain
   *parcel:
     Bingham Hall, Entry D
     College & Elm Streets
     New Haven, CT
   *postal:
     PO Box 209078
     New Haven, CT  06520-9078
   T: 203-432-1128   F: 203-432-1142
   E: ian.oliver@yale.edu

*Schedule:

   (None--inoperative for many years)

*Remarks:

   Single-handed clock, one face, toward
   Old Quad.  Bells given by Robbins
   Battell and his sister, Mrs. Ellen
   Battell Eldridge.
   Original Van Aerschodt tenor was not
   satisfactory, and is now the hour &
   church bell at St.Ann's Episcopal
   Church, Kennebunkport, ME (q.v.).

*Technical data:

   Clock-chime with quarters of  5 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   1 bell was recast or replaced in 188x
     by Hooper/Blake     
   Prior history:
     In 1882, the complete instrument of  5 bells was installed
       with bells made by vanAerschodt    
       (4 bells remain from that work.)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nHnQ  
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

News article (Oct.1882) about the gift of these bells.  (It's in a Beloit newspaper because Robbins Battell was also giving a clock-chime to Beloit College.)

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Van Aerschodt bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Hooper/Blake bellfoundry.

Clock-chimes are not yet indexed by number or year.

Index to all tower bell instruments in CT.

   This page was built from the database on 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/03/04