*Location:

   St.Thomas' Episcopal Church
   Chestnut and Wood Streets
   Camden, Maine, USA
   LL: N 44.20831, W 69.06470

   Hatch in ceiling of chapel requires
   extension ladder.
   Keyboard and automatic controls in
   vestry on west side of tower.

Site locator map

*Player:

   Richard Dostie

*Contact:

   St.Thomas' Church
   *parcel:
     33 Chestnut Street
     Camden, ME 04843
   *postal:
     PO Box 631
     Camden, ME  04843-0631
   T: 207-236-3680   F: 207-236-8016
   E: stthoscamden@adelphia.net

*Schedule:

   Silent for at least 10 years because of
   structural problems with the tower,
   which has a chapel in its base.

*Remarks:

   Added semitones flat 7th & sharp 4th.
   Tenor swings.  Tower top wrapped
   against weather and to prevent falling
   stonework.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     G A   /    NONE  
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1939
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W1E   
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  1 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    . meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   . meters above ground
     Belfry openness:   0%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The church Website opens with a small photo of the building, but says nothing about this chime.

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

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
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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 2025/09/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/09/30