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A carillon of 43 bells cast by the Gillett & Johnson Foundry in Croyden, England was dedicated on October 13, 1926 by Anton Brees. The carillon was a gift of Henry Bucher Swope and is installed in the tower of the Irvine Chapel on the Mercersburg Campus..
Six bells were added in 1996 and several bells have been replaced over time. A 50th bell was added in 2008.
References
1926 "Carillon
of 42 Bells is Bought for Mercersburg; Can be Heard Ten Miles," Harrisburg
Evening News, January 5, 1926, Page 16.
1926 "The
Mercersburg Academy Chapel Dedicated Today," Franklin Respository,
October 13, 1926, Page 1 | Part
2 |
The carillon in this spire is the gift of Henry Bucher Swope of the class
of 1900 and his family.
1927 "Henry Swope Dies Suddenly at Home," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 22, 1927, Page 16.
2001 "The 2000 GCNA
Congress, Frederick, Md, and Mercersburg, PA," by Elizabeth Berghout, Bulletin
of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America 50:8-27 (2001)
Pages 16-17: Mercersburg Academy
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