*Location:

   First Church of Christ, Scientist
   (was Third Church of Christ, Scientist)
   16th Street at I Street, NW
   Washington, D.C., USA
   LL: N 38.90161, W 77.03675

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Third Church of Christ, Scientist
   900 16th Street, NW
   Washington, DC  20006-2901
   T: (202)833-3325   F: (202)833-9167
   E: thirddc@earthlink.net
      clerk@firstchurchdc.org

*Schedule:

   (none)

*Remarks:

   Bells cast in Greenwood.
   Original building demolished in 2014,
   when First and Third congregations
   merged; bells reportedly inside new
   building, and now purely decorative.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1971
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2019

The original church Website, which had photos of the building, is now gone.  The Website of the merged congregation, now here, says nothing about the bells.

The English Wikipedia article about the original building has a clickable photo of it, in which the bells are clearly visible in what was irreverently called by some "Mary Baker Eddy's earring."

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

Other chimes which qualify as mini-carillons.

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 DC.

   This page was built from the database on 21-Sep-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/09/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2019/09/13