*Location:

   Porte St.Eloi (former town gate)
   Rue Saint-James at Rue de Guienne
   Bordeaux, Gironde, France
   LL: N 44.83548, W 0.57135

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bourdon swings with dual wheels, and
   has dual clock hammers;
   also an undocumented small bell.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  2 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Installation was completed in unknown year
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Auxiliary mechanisms: H     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

The French Wikipedia article about the great bell has several photos of the tower, but no closeup photo of the bell itself, and no mention of the small bell in the turret above.

Stock photo; scroll down for more photos of the building.

Where the bass bell of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

This clock-chime is not indexed by number, weight or year.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Gironde.

   This page was built from the database on 18-Aug-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/07/23
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/07/23