*Location:

   St.Peter's Episcopal Church
   Saint Peter & Church Streets
   Salem, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.52287, W 70.89312

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*Contact:

   St.Peter's Church
   24 Saint Peter Street
   Salem, MA  01970-3820
   T: 978-745-2291   F: 978-745-1153
   E: stpeters2@verizon.net
      parishadmin@
        stpeterssalem.comcastbiz.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Swinging tenor (now immobilized) within
   the chime frame.  Renovated after
   storm damage, and electrified.
   Also a 1740 Abel Rudhall bell that has
   been rung for the death of every
   U.S. president.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1885
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nC    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2019

The church Website (bilingual in English and Spanish) opens with a large photo of the bass bell. 

The church page on the diocesan Website has a photo of the tower plus contact information.

A large photo of the tower has been resurrected from a Webcrawler's cache of a previous incarnation of the church Website. 

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.

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 MA.

   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/02/28
   and on technical data last updated on 2019/09/13