HIGH BEACH : ENGLAND -ES

*Location:

   Church of the Holy Innocents
   Avey Lane / Cross Roads, nr Church Rd
   High Beach,
     Loughton, Essex, England
   OS Ref. TQ 408 978
   LL: N 51.66180, E 0.03422
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page for Loughton (to southeast)

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells (chimola)
   by Mears & Stainbank.
   Added semitone is flat 7th.
   Baton clavier is later than the bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1873
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005
*Links:

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

Ranking among all British Isles chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in England.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Nov-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/10/23
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/11/16
*Photos:

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