GLANDFORD : ENGLAND -NF

*Location:

   St.Martin Parish Church
   Hurdle Lane
   Glandford, Norfolk, England
   OS Ref. TG 043 414
   LL: N 52.93117, E 1.03953
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page for Wiveton (to north)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   A different hymn tune every 3 hours

*Remarks:

   Drum has horizontal slots, not holes.

*Technical data:

   Mechanical-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1903
     with bells made by Taylor      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005
*Links:

Video (2:46) of the bells playing a tune following a clock strike

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in England.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 31-Dec-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/12/31
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/03/28
*Photos:

(none available)

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