*Location:

   Église Notre-Dame-des-Récollets
   (O.L.V.-Kerk)
   Place du Martyr
   Verviers, Liège, Belgium
   LL: N 50.59380, E 5.85949

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*Carillonist:

   Marie-Madeleine Crickboom
   E: thonard-crickboom/@/skynet DOTbe

*Contact:

   Église Notre Dame aux Récollets
   Place du Martyr 106
   4800 Verviers

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 40 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    C F   
   Transposition is up  8 semitone(s), i.e., from C to G#
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1937
     with bells made by Michiels     
   Prior history:
     Previously, a complete instrument of 30 bells was installed
       by vanAerschodt
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021

The French Wikipedia article about the building has a photo of it, but does not mention the bells.  The associated Wikimedia Commons category has more photos of the tower.

A Website about churches (in French) has a photo of the building and tower, but does not mention the bells.

The church is classified as a heritage monument, but the tower is excluded!

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the van Aerschodt bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Michiels bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Belgian traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Belgian traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Belgian traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in BE.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Liège.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2015/08/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/07/19