*Location:

   Co-cathedral Notre-Dame
     de l'Annonciation
   Place Neuve
   Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France
   LL: N 46.20564, E 5.22705

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Paroisse Notre-Dame
   10, Place Clemenceau
   01000 Bourg-en-Bresse
   T: 04 74 22 17 07
   E: paroisseviergenoire@gmail.com
      Webform @
         www.notredame-bourgenbresse.fr

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Original chime includes 8 by Gédéon
   Morel (Lyon; 1 cast 1844, 7 cast 1854
   incl. bourdon "Marie-Charlotte" 3953lg)
   & 1 by Jérôme Bernard (Bourg, 1824);
   installed in rebuilt tower Dec.1910;
   drum by Eijsbouts via Paccard plus
   mechanical keyboard with large piano-
   style keys added by Aug.1913.  First
   octave purely diatonic; Paccard trebles
   fully chromatic.  Six largest still
   swing by motor; 3 smallest of original
   peal no longer swing.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1911
     with 14 bells made by Paccard          
   Prior history:
     In 1854, the instrument was begun with  9 bells
       by the maker cited in Remarks above
       There were no added semitones
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S6M17 
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1977

The French Wikipedia article about the building has a long section detailing the history of bells here, plus a table with descriptions of all the bells.  The associated Wikimedia Commons category has many photos of the tower.

The parish Website has a history of the building plus a photo of it.

Photos of the building

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 Paccard 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/Ain.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/09/04