*Location:

   The First Church in Charlestown (UCC)
     (once known as First Parish Church)
   10 Green Street
   Charlestown,
     Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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*Remarks:

   Made by H.N.Hooper & Co., Boston, MA;
   range D-E-F#-G-chromatic-G-A;
   information source dated 1874.
   Bells donated by Miss Charlotte Harris
   (d.1877), benefactor of Charlestown
   Public Library.  Church is oldest in
   this town (1632), now part of Boston.
   Bells destroyed by fire, Jan.12,1957;
   church rebuilt within remaining walls.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     D A   /    ----  
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1868
     with bells made by Hooper/Blake     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Hooper/Blake bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2005/09/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/09/08