*Location:

   Église du Saint-Sacrement
   Rue du Castella
   Laroque d'Olmes, Ariège, France
   LL: N 42.97080, E 1.87355

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bass from 1385, 2d from 1618.
   #2,3,4 swing

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range: (EbGC A   /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2001
     with bells made by Paccard       (except for 3)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S3    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The Association Carillons en Pays d'Oc has a page about this instrument (in French), with a photo of the tower, photos of some bells at dedication, and 2 short videos.

Photos of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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/Ariège.

   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 2024/08/12