St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

St Paul's Episcopal Church

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Cleveland businessman donated a chime of eight Gillett and Johnston bells in memory of his parents, Harry A. & Mariah H. Seabrook. The were first played on May 26, 1929 and the frame had room for twenty-three bells..

Fifteen additional bells were donated in 1953 by the Marguerite L. Thomas Bell Fund and by substantial gifts from interested members of the church congregation. The new bells were case by the van Bergen Bell Foundry in Heiligerlee, Netherlands and were first played on April 5, 1953 by Percival Price. They were dedicated on May 24, 1953 by Kamiel Lefevere.

Another two bells were added in 1954 at the suggestion of Percival Price.

The Sunderlin Bellfoundry is adding 22 bells to the carillon which will be ready by Easter 2023.

References
1907 Harry A. Seabrook (1828 - 1907) grave

1929 "St. Paul Chimes Ring Tomorrow," Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 25, 1929, Page 17.
Heights Church to Dedicate New Bells.
The new set of eight chimes in the Price memorial tower of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Cleveland Heights, will be dedicated tomorrow morning in connection with the regular morning service.
The chimes are a gift to the church from Charles J. Seabrook in memory of his parents, Harry A. and Mariah H. Seabrook. They were especially cast by the famous Gillette & Johnston Bell Foundry of Croydon, England.

1945 Marguerite L Thomas (1878 - 22 Feb 1945) grave

1946 Charles Jewett Seabrook (1854 - 24 Feb 1946) grave

1946 "Charles J. Seabrook," Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 2, 1946, Page 17.
He was a long member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and donated the bells in the new church on Cleveland Heights.

1952 "Noted Bell Ringer Is Back for Service at St. Paul's," Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 12, 1952, Page 10.

1953 "Two Heights Churches Tune New Sets of Holland Bells," Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 27, 1953, Page 18.
Yesterday, a set of 12 bells weighting a total of 21,510 pounds was installed in the belfry of the Church of the Saviour and 15 bells were hoisted into the tower of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

1953 "St. Paul's To Ring 23-Bell Carillon," Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 4, 1953, Page 9.
Percival Price.

1953 "Episcopal Church Dedicates Bells," Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 23, 1953, Page 20.
Kamiel Lefevre.

1957 "The Cleveland Carillons," Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America 10(2):9-10 (October 1957)
The twenty-five bell carillon in the massive, handsome tower of Saint Paul's Church had its beginning as a chime of eight diatonic bells cast by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon, England, and installed in 1929. The eight bells, given by Charles J. Seabrook in memory of bis parents, were played for the first time on Sunday, May 26, 1929.
In February, 1953, seventeen new bells, cast in Holland by the Van Bergen Foundry, were combined with the original eight, bringing the total number of bells to twenty-five. The addition of the seventeen Van Bergen bells was made possible, in part, by the Marguerite L. Thomas Bell Fund and by substantial gifts from interested members of the church congregation.