*Location:

   St.Philip's Episcopal Church
   Church and Queen Streets
   Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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*Remarks:

   Bells cast by Dyer of Philadelphia
   in 1848; chime and clock erected by
   Francis Stein of Charleston in 1849-50.
   The bells were seized for war materiel
   by the Confederate Army in 1862.
   Since 1976, tower has contained 4
   bells by Paccard, which both swing and
   strike the quarters.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1850
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above            
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1999

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the miscellaneous bellfoundries.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2003/12/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/12/19