*Location:

   Église Saint-Martin
   Bergues (Sint Winoksbergen),
     Nord (Normandy), France

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*Remarks:

   Original bells by Marc Le Serre;
   sub-bourdon of 4 tonnes cast in 1618 by
   Jean Blanpain; all destroyed 1793 by
   Revolution.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1696
     with  8 bells made by an unknown maker 
   Prior history:
     In 1588, the instrument was begun with 12 bells
       by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

This site and its history are also described here.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries. Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries.

   This page was built from the database on 24-Feb-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2013/01/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/01/30