SAINT-EMILION : FRANCE - 33

*Location:

   Main building
   Château Angelus
   Mazerat
   Saint-Émilion, Gironde, France
   LL: N 44.89303, W 0.17155
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (note difference in spelling)

*Contact:

   AngÑlus
   33330 Saint-Emilion
   T: 5 57 24 71 39   F: 5 57 24 68 56
   E: angelus/@/angelus DOTcom

*Schedule:

   Swinging bell rings at 7,12,19

*Remarks:

   Second-largest bell swings.
   Autoplay repertoire over 80 melodies.
*Bass bell:
   700kg

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2012
     with bells made by Paccard          
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S1    
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    . meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   . meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024
*Links:

The Website of the vineyard (in six languages) requires visitors to be of a legal minimum age.  The page after entrance has a background of the bells in their cage; the second, in the center, is hung to swing, with 3 bells on either side; below, a ring of 8 surrounding a square of four.  The Actualites page has a large photo over the vineyards, with the bell frame visible on the roof of the main building.  The property page has a good view of the building and its bell frame; scroll down to hear the swinging bell.

The Paccard project page has technical details.

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/Gironde.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/12/21
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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