LEVIN : NEW ZEALAND

*Location:

   St.Mary's Anglican Church
   Cambridge & Manchester Streets
   Levin, North Island, New Zealand
   LL: S 40.62162, E 175.28953
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Levin Anglican Church Office
   *parcel:
     3 Manchester Street
   *postal:
     PO Box 90
   Levin  5540
   T: 06/368 5987
   E: (Webform, levinanglicanchurch.com)
      reception@levinanglicanchurch.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Church demolished 2019-20, reason
   unknown; fate of bells is also unknown;
   parish Website says no services until
   further notice.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1954
     with bells made by Taylor           
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2011
*Links:

A parish page has a small photo of the building.

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

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in New Zealand.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2011/04/30
*Photos:

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