WINNIPEG - STL : CANADA - MB

   Nanton and Clark Memorial

*Location:

   St.Luke's Anglican Church
   Nassau Street & Stradbrook Avenue
   Osborne Village,
     Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
   LL: N 49.87693, W 97.14817
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Luke's Church
   130 Nassau Street North
   Winnipeg, MB  R3L 2H1
   T: (204)452-3609
   E: stluke@shaw.ca
   - or -
   Keith Tinsley, Organist & Choir Director
   T: (204)489-5255

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters from
   G&J tower clock installed 1911;
   tenor can be swung by motor, counter-
  weighted for slow swinging.
   Report of baton keyboard was incorrect.

*Technical data: 

   Chime with Ellacombe stand of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1910
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building; a section of the Music page pictures and describes the bells.

An old photograph of the church.

St.Luke's is a Manitoba Provincial Heritage Site.  This page has a modern photo and architectural description.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Reports of these bells as being by G&J, 1919, are incorrect.

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 MB.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on  9-Apr-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/04/04

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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