*Location:

   St.Andrew's Episcopal Church
   Church Street at Washington Street
   Princess Anne, Maryland, USA
   LL: N 38.20304, W 75.69410

Site locator map

*Ringers' contact(s):

   Ann Redfield Smith
   14146 Lokey Lane
   Princess Anne, MD  21853
   T: 410-430-4825
   E: varedfieldsmith@yahoo.com

      Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the NAGCR Website.

*Contact:

   St.Andrew's Church 
   30513 Washington Street
   Princess Anne, MD  21853-1143
   T: 410-651-2882
   E: somersetparish@gmail.com

*Schedule:

   Practice Wednesday 1900-2030;
   service Sunday 0930-55

*Remarks:

   Hung in a frame for 8 bells.
   Tower also contains a service bell
   (McShane, A#, 1906 recast of 1859
   original), hung above the ring.

*Technical data:

   Ring of 6 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1993
     with bells made by Eijsbouts        
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of ringing room:             6 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:    %
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

The church Website has on the home page a large fuzzy photo of the building; unfortunately, it's from the back side, so the tower is not visible.  Elsewhere on the Website, two other photos of the building do include the tower, but it's obscured by trees.  There is an excellent page about the bells, and the service bell is pictured on the History page.

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

Ranking among all North American rings by pitch/weight.
Ranking among all North American rings by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American rings by year of completion.

Having only 6 bells, this site is not indexed among chimes by size.

Index to all tower bell instruments in MD.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Nov-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2000/02/18