*Location:

   St.John's United Methodist Church
   Mount Auburn & Patten Streets
   Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.36711, W 71.18109

Site locator map

*Player:

   Susan Carifio
   - and -
   Sylvia Missal

*Contact:

   St.John's Church
   80 Mt.Auburn Street
   Watertown, MA  02472-3930
   - or -
   Belmont-Watertown UMC
   421 Common Street
   Belmont, MA  02478
   T: 857-600-1281
   E: office@bwumc.org
   - or -
   Yilin You, Music Director
   E: music@bwumc.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells inscribed with Beatitudes in
   Latin.  St.John's merged with Belmont
   UMC in 2012.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F F   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1900
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

As March 2023, a Website for St.John's Church is supposedly here, but that may not actually be accessible; it may now be a Korean church, as Korean and English are spoken.
A Google Maps StreetView sign says "Belmont-Watertown UMC / Grace Vision UMC", and the Website of the former says "Two Sites. One Community."  The home page has photos of both buildings.
A 2011 archive of a former Website opens with both a photo and a drawing of the church; an associated Music page says "Our tower chimes are also the originals and will ring once again soon!"  But by 2013, this Website was gone.
A 2007 archive of a former Website mentions the chime and its players.

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 23-Mar-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/03/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/27