*Location:
St.Thomas Episcopal Church Jackwood Street at Endicott Lane Houston, Texas, USA LL: N 29.68498, W 95.46439
*Ringers' contact(s):
Richard H. Graves 5102 Darnell Street Houston, TX 77096-1404 H: (713)667-1266 E: rgraves@compuserve.com
Verify the current ringers' contact(s) at the NAGCR Website.
*Contact:
St.Thomas Episcopal Church 4900 Jackwood Street Houston, TX 77096-1505 T: (713)666-3111 F: (713)668-3887
*Schedule:
Service Sunday 0930-1030; practice Monday 1900-2100, alternating weeks with St.Paul's.
*Remarks:
Near tower are the railroad bell which first served this church, plus an anonymous Mexican bell cast in 1960.
*Technical data:
Ring of 8 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is B in the middle octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ROPE / NONE
There are no added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1971
with bells made by Taylor
Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Ranking among all North American rings by pitch/weight.
Ranking among all North American rings by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American rings by year of completion.
Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Index to all tower bell instruments in TX.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 3-Jan-10 based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02 and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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