*Location:

   Glen Mills Schools Library
   (formerly Smith Memorial Chapel;
     originally House of Refuge Chapel)
   Glen Mills Schools
   Glen Mills Road
   Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 39.91976, W 75.49768

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Glen Mills Schools
   *parcel:
     Glen Mills Road
     Glen Mills, PA  19342
   *postal:
     PO Box 5001
     Concordville, PA  19331-5001
   T: (610)459-8100   F: (610)558-1493

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitone flat 7th;
   major triad on tenor all swing.
   Possibly removed (date unknown).
   The House of Refuge (reform school for
   boys) was renamed Glen Mills School
   in 1911.  The school closed in 2019.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E F#  /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1902
     with bells made by McShane     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W3    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The Schools' Website has a small photo of the Library on one of the School Tour pages.  But there is no mention of the history of the chapel or its conversion to a library.  A drone photo on the Our Mission page shows the belfry with some bells visible.

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 PA.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/09/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/05/25