*Location:

   Tour Jacquemart
   Pl.Jacquemart at Pl.Charles de Gaulle
   Romans-sur-Isère, Drôme, France
   LL: N 45.04487, E 5.04960

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Hôtel de Ville
   Place Jules-Nadi CS 41012
   26102 Romans Cedex
   T: 04 75 02 51 51   F: 04 75 02 73 71
   E: Webform @ www.ville-romans.fr

*Schedule:

   Hour strike on C (2300kg, 1545)

*Remarks:

   Old report of 24 bells at unknown site
   presumably was for this.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 2019
     with bells made by an unknown maker      
   Prior history:
     Previously, the instrument was begun with 18 bells
       by an unknown maker
   Auxiliary mechanisms: H     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

YouTube video (4:16) with lots of old photos of the tower, to non-bell music; begins with 4-bell motif before hour strike on C (~2000kg)

YouTube video (0:51) quick tour of the tower, inside and out, including drone views, but only partial coverage of the cupola

Fundraising page from 2019, for restoration; current hour bell from 1545

A page about the tower has several photos plus the next-above videos.  Jacquemart dates from 1429; tower restored 1884 and 2019.  Original bell cracked and was recast in 1545; mechanism modernized in 1880s.

YouTube video (1:07), same as above but with French narrator and subtitles

The French Wikipedia article about the tower has a photo of it, but has only a bare mention of the hour bell.

YouTube video (8:15) Tour of the city, with jacquemart at 5:30-6:00

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Drôme.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/01/23
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/01/23