*Location:

   Crossing belfry
   Cathédrale Notre-Dame
   Rue Robert de Coucy
   Reims, Marne, France
   LL: N 49.25399, E 4.03409 (crossing)

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Hour strike on large bell,
   quarter tunes on small bells.

*Remarks:

   Weight-driven clock and chiming machine
   by Ungerer Freres, Strasbourg (1886) in
   attic at transept crossing.  Present
   bells replace a similar set damaged
   in WW I.

*Technical data:

   Mechanical-automatic chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is F  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range: (E) F ??  /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

The French Wikipedia article about the building has a section about its bells.
Photo of the chime
A Wikimedia Commons category for the chime has 8 photos, including one of the weights that drive the hour strike and the chiming machine.

A YouTube video (14:48) of the cathedral bells and clock includes operation of the astronomical clock inside the cathedral.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown 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/Marne, including the peal of 5 distributed between the south tower and the north transept belfry.

   This page was built from the database on 18-Aug-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/08/17
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/07/23