Indexes to tower bell sites
in the British Isles
(Great Britain and Ireland)

Tower bell instruments or collections of 8 or more bells can be found in all countries of the islands commonly called the British Isles.  These include the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and the United Kingdom, itself comprised of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  This Website has a site data page for each such instrument or collection which is known, except as follows:
  >   All rings (bells hung for change-ringing) are omitted unless they share the tower with, or are part of, an instrument that otherwise qualifies for listing here.  That includes great bells.  They might be included if they are also equipped with a tune-playing chiming machine that is exceptionally interesting.  Note that all ringable towers of any size can be found in Dove's Guide Online.
  >   Most 8-bell conventional chimes are omitted; all can be found in Mike Chester's tables of chimes and in Dove's Guide.
  >   All tubular chimes are omitted unless they contain a semitone (which is rare in this region).  All such chimes can also be found in Mike Chester's tables and in Dove's Guide.

To facilitate finding pages of interest to visitors, as well as to show related information about groups of sites, those site data pages are indexed in several different ways, as follows:

• Tower bell sites in this area can be categorized according to the type of instrument.  Each of the pages linked here presents a variety of indexes for one particular type of instrument:
  • Traditional carillons

  • Non-traditional carillons and carillon-sized sets of tower bells

  • Chimes and chime-sized sets of tower bells (but see the exclusions stated above)

• The following pages are not segregated by type of instrument:
  • Combined index by country and city

  • Combined index by county and city (within each country)

  • Combined index by city regardless of country & county

    If you are looking for a specific site by its institutional name (e.g., a church or school) or by the instrument's proper name, pick any of the above three indexes and then use the "find in page" feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word (or partial word) in that name.

  • Combined index by bellfoundry

  • Sites that are no more (exhibited, relocated, destroyed, sold, stolen, etc.)

• Also available:
  • List of great bells in this region

  • Regional locator map for instruments of all types, including great bells

  • Regional locator map for great bells

• Summaries for the British Isles:
  • the distribution of instruments by bourdon pitch vs. number of bells and by treble pitch vs. number of bells,
    for traditional carillons and for non-traditional carillons and for chimes.

  • tables of bellfounders' work in traditional carillons and in non-traditional carillons and in chimes.

• A PDF listing all sites in this region is available from the hardcopy page.

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