*Location:

   Christ Episcopal Church
   Lafayette Road (US-1) at Mirona Road
   Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
   LL: N 43.04838, W 70.77088

   Madison and Lovell Streets

Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Christ Episcopal Church
   1035 Lafayette Road
   Portsmouth, NH  03801-5468
   T: 603-436-8842
   E: info@christepiscopalchurch.us

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th.
   Original building burned in 1963;
   bells presumably survived, relocated.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1882
     with bells made by McShane          
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1888

On the church Website, every page has a photo of a spire in the left margin; but there is no history given.

Historic photo showing original building and bell tower

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane 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 NH.

   This page was built from the database on 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/03/06