*Location:

   Beffroi de l'Hôtel de Ville
   Place Charles de Gaulle
   Bailleul (Belle), Nord, France
   LL: N 50.73972, E 2.73433

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*Carillonist:

   Alain Belpalme
   E: alain.belpalme@hotmail.fr
   - and -
   Florian Legrand

   Stéphane Deheegher
   Albert Vanneuville

*Contact:

   Office du Tourisme
   T: 28 49 18 17

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Old bells by Bernard, Lorraine,
   destroyed 23 March 1918.
   Restored in 2000.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----35/    ----16
   Transposition is unknown
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1932
     with bells made by Michiels         
   Prior history:
     In 1717, a complete instrument of 32 bells was installed
       with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (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 2017

The French Wikipedia article about the building has current and historical photos of the tower, but only one sentence about the carillon.

The ARPAC Website (archived 2019) presents much more detail than we can here, though it is all in French.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, 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 French traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in France.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Nord.

   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/02/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2018/09/10