*Location:

   Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Phébade
   Pl. Saint-Pierre
   Venerque, Haute-Garonne, France
   LL: N 43.43299, E 1.44251

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Replaced an old set melted down during
   the Revolution.
   Renovated and electrified in 1961;
   new system installed in 2010.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1844
     with bells made by an unknown maker      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S3    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The French Wikipedia article about the church has a photo of it; four bells (three of them swingable) can be seen in individual openings above the roof of the nave.

Photos of the building

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/Haute-Garonne.

   This page was built from the database on 16-Aug-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/08/12
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/08/12