*Location:

   Campanile
   Parc Sainte-Marie
   Rue Decrès at Rue Saint-Jean
   Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France
   LL: N 48.11241, E 5.13856

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Fondation de Patrimoine
   153 bis. avenue Charles de Gaulle
   92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
   T: 01 70 48 48 00
   E: info/@/fondation-patrimoine DOTorg
   - or -
   Délégation Champagne-Ardenne
   21 rue Andrieux
   51100 Reims
   T: 03 26 97 81 72
   E: champagneardenne @
        fondation-patrimoine.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Large piano-type keys.
   Five swinging bells, dated 1652-1777

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the bass octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     B B   /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   Installation was completed in 1923
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S5    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The Website of a project to restore the tower and grotto has 4 clickable photos of it.

Photos of the building

The French Wikipedia article about the building has photos of it but says nothing about any bells.  There are twin front towers; based on the presence of louvering, any bells are probably in the south tower.

A YouTube video (5:11) focuses on the ringing four of the five old bells.

A YouTube recording (5:15) of some of the swinging bells has a very large photo of the tower, in which the stair turret to the belfry can be seen clearly.

A page about the church has contact information and a small photo.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all French traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Haut-Marne.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/09/04