*Location:

   Highmoor Bell Tower
   Wigton, Cumbria, England
   OS Ref. NY 263 476

Site locator map not applicable for defunct sites.

*Remarks:

   9-bell automatic chime by VanAerschodt
   plus sub-bourdon ("Joe O'Highmoor"),
   hour bell) by Taylor; added semitone
   was flat 7th.  All scrapped c.1920,
   possibly when estate owner bankrupted.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range: (G#)C#C#  /    NONE  
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1884
     with bells made by vanAerschodt (except for 1)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nM    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

This site and its history are also described here.

A page about Wigton gives a brief description of the tower and its bells; unfortunately, no photo has yet been found online.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the van Aerschodt bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on 24-Feb-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2005/11/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/11/10