ALEXANDRIA - VTS : USA - VA

*Location:

   Immanuel Chapel
   Virginia Theological Seminary
   Seminary Road, W of North Quaker Lane
   Alexandria, Virginia, USA
   LL: N 38.8199, W 77.0925
Site locator map  or  [ MapQuest map ]
Sep'13: Google's overhead photography shows the burned-out shell of the old chapel to the northeast of the site of the new chapel.
Also see our own Map Use Hints.

*Ringers' contact(s):

   Bell-Tower-Contact/@/vts DOTedu

*Contact:

   Virginia Theological Seminary
   3737 Seminary Road
   Alexandria, VA  22304
   T: (703)370-6600
   E: chapelfortheages@vts.edu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Ring of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2015
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2015
*Links:

The seminary Website has a page about the design of the new building, while it was under construction.  A page about the bells has a photo from their dedication plus a slideshow (images individually clickable for larger versions).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel 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 VA.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 15-Apr-16
   based on textual data last updated on 2016/04/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2016/04/06
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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