*Location:

   Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
   Beatties Ford Road at McAllister Drive
   Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
   LL: N 35.28016, W 80.85600

Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
   3400 Beatties Ford Road
   Charlotte, NC  28216-3740
   T: 704-392-0392
   E: Webform @ friendshipcharlotte.org
   - or -
   Frank McGinns, Director of Music and Arts
   T: 704-391-8618
   E: fmcginnis/@/friendshipcharlotte DOTorg

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Peal of 5 bells by Paccard, cast 2005
   and installed April 2006;
   sub-bourdon G 11,200 lbs plus C,F,G,A.
   Addition of 43 bells (with electric 
   action) is planned.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  5 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the bass octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2006
     with bells made by Paccard          
   Auxiliary mechanisms: H     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

The church Website had a photo gallery about the ceremony of blessing the bells in April 2006, just before their installation.  (The freestanding bell tower which is visible in one photo is associated with the older building across the street.)  The "west elevation" photo gallery has more recent pictures of the tower of the present main building, with some of the bells clearly visible.

Paccard foundry page about this bell and its companions

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

As a small chime, this installation is not indexed by size, weight or year.

The bass bell of this chime is one of the great bells in North America.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NC.

   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/01/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/01/15