*Location:

   Église Notre-Dame
   Rue de la Paroisse at Rue Charles Quint
   Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France
   LL: N 50.37383, E 2.03728

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Five by Martin Heuwin (1580), 7 by
   Gorlier (Frévent, 1829), 1 anon (1642);
   added semitones = sharp 4th & flat 7th.
   Also a peal of 3: one by Gorlier
   (1829), 2 by Charles Druout (1881).
   The ancient bells may originally have
   been elsewhere.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     B D   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1829
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above (except for 6)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

Photo of the tower

A page on the city Website has a photo of the building and a paragraph about the bells.

Photo of the building

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

This work having no predominant maker, it is not indexed by foundry.

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 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/18
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/01/30