*Location:

   Église Saint-Martin
   Grand Place
   Harnes, Pas-de-Calais, France
   LL: N 50.44473, E 2.90468

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*Contact:

   Paroisse Saint-Martin
   6, rue Modeste Virel
   62440 Harnes
   T: (03)21 20 25 02

*Schedule:

   Auto only

*Remarks:

   Manual keyboard disconnected; treble
   never was connected; also a peal of 4
   (3 Chas.Wauthy 1927, 1 Maurice Gripon
   1923), never connected.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     E G#17/    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1933
     with bells made by Causard     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nB    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

A personal page about the history of the area has current and historic photos of the church, and mentions the bells.

A virtual visit to the church, via the parish Website, requires a very modern Flash player.

Photos of the building

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

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Causard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Pas-de-Calais.

   This page was built from the database on 22-Jun-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/06/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/01/30