KINGSTON-UPON-HULL - HT/1 : ENGLAND -YE

*Location:

   Holy Trinity Church
   (Most Holy & Undivided Trinity)
   Market Place
   (between Market Place and Fish Street)
   Kingston-upon-Hull,
     Yorkshire/East Riding, England
   OS Ref. TA 099 285
   LL: N 53.74175, W 0.33416
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (County is wrong; other data are correct.)

*Contact:

   Holy Trinity Parish Church
   Market Place
   Kingston upon Hull  HU1 1RR
   T: 01482 324835
   E: office@holy-trinity.org.uk

*Schedule:

   Service Sunday 1030-1100;
   practice Monday 2000-2130;
   12-bell practice 2nd Saturday 1100-1230

*Remarks:

   6b added in 1975 to provide a middle
   octave or six; extra treble added 1979
   to provide a light six; 2# added 1983
   to provide a lighter octave or six.
   Shares the belfry with a service bell
   and a 23-bell automatic carillon.

*Technical data:

   Ring of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The instrument was enlarged in 1983
     with  1 bells made by Taylor      
   Prior history:
     In 1979, the instrument was enlarged to 14 bells
       by Taylor      
       (1 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
       There was one added semitone
     In 1975, the instrument was enlarged to 13 bells
       by Taylor      
       (1 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
     In 1959, the instrument was enlarged to 12 bells
       by Taylor      
       (2 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
       There were no added semitones
     In 1899, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by Taylor      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013
*Links:

The church Website says nothing about the chime and very little about the ring, though it does have a downloadable PDF with contact information for ringers (under About the Church -> Bell Ringing).

Where the initial phase this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor 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, including the non-traditional carillon in the same tower..

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/10/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/10/20
*Photos:

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