*Location:

   Église Abbatiale Saint-Saulve
     (originally Saint-Walloy)
   Place Gambetta
   Montreuil-sur-Mer,
     Pas-de-Calais, France
   LL: N 50.46408, E 1.76306

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay at the quarter hour, 8am-8pm

*Remarks:

   Octave in E-flat relative minor scale;
   cast by Pierre Chapperon, total 79 kg;
   another by same founder is not in the
   tower; also 4 larger swingers, cast by
   Gorlier (3,1823) and Garnier, Gorlier &
   Druout (1,1893).

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     D#D#  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1682
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

The ARPAC page about these bells (archived 2019) has a detailed inventory.

The French Wikipedia article about the abbey has a very old drawing of it, but does not mention any bells.

Photos of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, 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  8-Sep-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/05/08