*Location:

   The Bell Tower (belfry level)
   Barrack Square
     (Barrack Street and Riverside Drive)
   Perth, Western Australia, Australia
   LL: S 31.95891, E 115.85817

   Royal Ascot Racecourse, UK

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*Contact:

   The Bell Tower
   Barrack Square
   Riverside Drive
   Perth, WA
   T: 08/6210 0444   F: 08/9325 2507
   E: Webform @
        www.thebelltower.com.au
   - or -
   The Swan Bell Foundation Inc.
   E: info@thebelltower.com.au

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters,
   hour strike at the octave.

*Remarks:

   Bells originally by James Barwell,
   Birmingham, UK; clock by J.B.Joyce of
   Whitchurch, Shropshire, UK (1896);
   recast when clock tower was replaced
   in 1960.  Clock & bells taken down in
   2004, sold in 2005, installed here in
   2006.

*Technical data:

   Mechanical-automatic chime of  5 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   All bells were recast or replaced in 1960
     by Whitechapel
   Prior history:
     In 1895, a complete instrument of  5 bells was installed
       with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

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

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   This page was built from the database on 25-May-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/05/24
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/05/24