BRANTFORD : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   Grace Anglican Church
   Albion Street at Church & West Streets
   Brantford, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.14161, W 80.26868
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*Player:

   Will Fletcher
   - and -
   Dave Johnston
*Past chimer:
   Paul Waring

*Contact:

   Grace Church
   4 Pearl Street
   Brantford, ON  N3T 3N4
   T: (519)752-6814
   E: gracechurch /@/ kwic DOTcom

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Installed August 1915; dedicated 1918
   after the signing of the Armistice
   which ended the World War.

*Technical data:

   Chime with Ellacombe stand of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1915
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2017
*Links:

The present Website of the church opens with a large photo of the building, but there is no useful information about it other than a contact form.
The former Website of the church ha a photo of the tower on every page.  The history page doesn't specifically mention the bells, but there is a photo of the gift stone.  There is also a different photo of the church, in which the tower stair turret can be seen, with its independent exterior door.

News article about the chimer

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

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 ON.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 22-Jun-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/06/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2017/02/20
*Photos:

(none available)

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