*Location:

   St.Peter the Apostle Catholic Church
   Somerset Street at College Avenue
   New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
   LL: N 40.49779, W 74.44614

Site locator map

*Player:

   Anthony R. Nardino, Director of Music
   E: anardino@gmail.com
   - and -
   J. Norris Harding III
   - and -
   Andrew Farkas

*Contact:

   St.Peter's Rectory
   94 Somerset Street
   New Brunswick, NJ  08901-1220
   T: (732)545-6820   F: (732)545-4069
   E: info@stpetertheapostle.org
      parishoffice@
        stpeternewbrunswick.org

*Schedule:

   For special occasions

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th;
   tenor bell hung to swing.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F F   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1870
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W1    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021

The church Website has a page about the bells, and three historic articles about them are downloadable.

A news article (Dec.2021) about a mural in the bell tower has photos of the chimestand and of the mural, as well as a video (0:55).

A parish page about the church has a photo of the building (from an old postcard).

Newspaper clippings:  from The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick NJ) 24 Dec 1982;
from The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick NJ) 24 Dec 1998, part 1 and part 2, with 3 photos;
from the Asbury Park Press (NJ) 25 Dec 1988 (same text as preceding article, but with a different photo);
from The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick) 24 Dec 1998

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).
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 NJ.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Jan-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/12/31
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/10/09