Indexes to tower bell sites in Europe

Tower bell instruments or collections of 8 or more bells can be found in most countries of Europe.  This Website has a site data page for each such instrument or collection which is known to exist.  To facilitate finding pages of interest to visitors, as well as to show related information about groups of sites, those site data pages are indexed in several different ways.  Because the number of instruments per country varies greatly, from hundreds to only a few (or even just one), there are separate sets of indexes for the following countries or groups of countries:

• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Scandinavia, which for the purposes of this Website includes all of the Nordic countries plus Iceland and the dependencies of Denmark (the Faeroe Islands and Greenland).
• The islands commonly called the British Isles, which include the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and the United Kingdom, itself comprised of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

If your interest today is within one of the above countries or areas, click the appropriate link above for the most efficient way to find or explore what you seek.  Alternatively,

• There is a combined index by city for all of the known sites in continental and island Europe and the North Atlantic.  This is particularly useful if you are looking for a specific site by its institutional name (e.g., a church or school) or by the instrument's proper name, or by a city name, and are uncertain of the country in which it is located.  Go to this index, and then use the "find in page" feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word (or partial word) in that name.

The site data pages for countries and regions which are not individually listed above are indexed in several different ways, as follows:

• Tower bell sites in this area can be categorized according to the type of instrument.  Each of the pages linked here presents a variety of indexes for one particular type of instrument:
  • Traditional carillons
  • Non-traditional carillons and carillon-sized sets of tower bells
  • Chimes and chime-sized sets of tower bells

• The following pages are not segregated by type of instrument:
  • Combined index by country and city
  • Combined index by city, regardless of country, province or region
    
    
  • Combined index by bellfoundry
  • Sites that are degraded (carillons and chimes)
  • Sites that are no more (exhibited, relocated, destroyed, sold, stolen, etc.), including those which were located in Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands or Scandinavia.  (There is a separate such page for the British Isles and one for Germany.)

• Also available:
  • Regional locator map for traditional carillons
  • Regional locator map for instruments of all types, including great bells
  • Regional locator map for great bells

  • Collections of tower bells

  • Table of great bells in continental Europe (excluding Russia and the British Isles but including Germany), by weight
  • List of great bells in continental Europe (excluding Germany, Russia and the British Isles), by country and weight
  • List of great bells in Germany
  • List of great bells in Russia
  • List of great bells in the British Isles

  Note that Russia is included with Europe in all site indexes cited above; it is only for purposes of listing great bells that it is treated separately.
  In contrast, Germany is indexed separately, but its great bells are included in the table linked here, as indicated above.

• Summaries for this region, including Scandinavia but not Denmark:
  • the distribution of instruments by bourdon pitch vs. number of bells and by treble pitch vs. number of bells,
    for traditional carillons and for non-traditional carillons and for chimes and peals.

  • tables of bellfounders' work in traditional carillons and in non-traditional carillons and in chimes and peals.

  (This section will be revised once a set of Scandinavian summaries has been made.)

• A PDF listing all sites in this region, including Scandinavia but not Denmark, is available from the hardcopy page.

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