*Location:

   St.Saviour's Episcopal Church
   Mount Desert Street at High Street
   Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
   LL: N 44.38736, W 68.20673

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Saviour's Episcopal Church
   41 Mount Desert Street
   Bar Harbor, ME  04609-1753
   T: 207-288-4215   F: 207-288-8953
   E: cricket @ rndi.episcopal DOTorg
   - or -
   E: bluewatersailors@comcast.net

*Schedule:

   Currently silent; formerly
   Cambridge (Westminster) tune and hour
   strike 5 times daily

*Remarks:

   Bells were a gift from William Pierson
   Hamilton in thanksgiving for the
   recovery of his wife, Theodosia Sisson
   Hamilton, from a serious illness;
   temporary steel tower and electric
   action supplied by the church.
   Renovated in 1985.
   Keyboard in parish hall.
   2024: Bells removed by Ben Sunderlin
   for tuning and rehanging.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1938
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nI    
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    8 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  10 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

New Website?

On the church Website, the History page mentions that the "10-bell carillon" was refurbished in the 1980s, but there is no other information about it, and no photograph of the building.

A former Website has a photo of the building, with its low central tower; but that's not where the bells are.  The History page mentions the chime, but calls it a "carillon".

A news article (29 My '18) about a forthcoming concert incorrectly attributes the bells to the West Troy foundry.

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 ME.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Oct-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/09/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/09/27