*Location:
Cathedral Church of St.Paul Molesworth & Hill Streets Wellington, North Island, New Zealand LL: S 41.27631, E 174.77765
*Ringers' contact(s):
Pleasance Purser 473 Karaka Bay Road Seatoun, Wellington 3 H: 4/388 6755 W: 4/471 9624 - or - Mary Williams E: dbmmwill/@/clear DOTnet DOTnz
Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the ANZAB Website.
*Contact:
Wellington Cathedral of St.Paul PO Box 12-044 Wellington 6144 T: (04)472 0286 F: (04)474 1555 E: admin@wellingtoncathedral.org.nz
*Schedule:
Practice Tuesday 1930-2100 (call ahead for entry arrangements); service Sunday 0930-1000 and 1630-1700.
*Remarks:
Ring of 12 plus flat 6 and extra treble. Eight of these bells (plus one recast) came from St.Edmund's, Northampton (Taylor, 1884); new bells cast in 1981.
*Technical data:
Ring of 14 bells (12+2)
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ROPE / NONE
There is one added semitone
The whole instrument was installed in 1984
with bells made by Taylor
Year of latest technical information source is 1992
*Links:
The older part of this work being partially recycled, it is not indexed by foundry.
Where the newest part of 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 24-Nov-11 based on textual data last updated on 2011/11/19 and on technical data last updated on 1992/11/18
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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