Tower-bell instruments in the British Isles:
index by country and city

Tower bell instruments, including traditional carillons, non-traditional carillons, chimes, etc., may be found in the British Isles in the indicated countries and counties:

Countries: England (UK), Ireland (Eire), Northern Ireland (UK), Scotland (UK), Shetland Isles (UK), Wales (UK)

Click on any underlined country name above to go directly to that section of this index. Within a country, sites are listed alphabetically by city and site-name.

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, then use the "find in page" feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word (or partial word) in that name.

NOTES:

This index not only is geographic but also includes information from the mechanism-specific indexes for this region. Sites are tagged as follows:

trad
traditional carillon

non-trad
non-traditional carillon (all mechanisms)

chime
chime (all mechanisms except rings)
If you do not find here a city (or instrument) which you think should be listed, then check the page of sites that are no more for this region. If it's not there, then please send a message to csz_stl@swbell.net telling everything you know about it.
NOTE: Many known chimes remain to be posted here.
Rings (tower bells hung for change-ringing) are not listed in this region (though they are in other regions of the world) because there are too many of them (over 2000 with 8 or more bells). To find information about them (and about the relatively few which are elsewhere), see the online Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers.

England

ALFRETON                      : ENGLAND -DB  chime
   Watchorn Memorial Methodist Church 
ALSTON                        : ENGLAND -CU  chime
   St.Augustine Parish Church 
ALVERTHORPE                   : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   Victory Carillon
   St.Paul Church
ASHORNE HILL                  : ENGLAND -WA  chime
   The Nickelodeon Collection 
   (Musical museum) 
BECONTREE                     : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   St.Alban Parish Church 
BIRTLES HALL                  : ENGLAND -CH  chime
   St.Catherine Parish Church 
BLACKBURN                     : ENGLAND -LA  chime
   St.Jude Parish Church
BOSTON - 2                    : ENGLAND -LI  chime
   Boston Parish Church (Boston Stump) 
BOURNVILLE                    : ENGLAND -WO  trad
   The George Cadbury Memorial Carillon
     (The Bournville Carillon)
   School Tower 
BRADFORD                      : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   Town Hall 
CARLTON                       : ENGLAND -NT  chime
   St.John the Baptist Church 
COVENTRY                      : ENGLAND -WA  chime/ring
   Cathedral Church of St.Michael
DALSTON - SMK                 : ENGLAND -E   chime/ring
   Saint Mark's Parish Church 
DALSTON - SMY                 : ENGLAND -E   chime
   Saint Mary's Catholic Church
DEPTFORD                      : ENGLAND -SE  chime
   St.Luke's Parish Church
EATON HALL                    : ENGLAND -CH  non-trad
   (Seat of the Duke of Westminster)
   Chapel Tower
FOULRIDGE                     : ENGLAND -LA  chime
   St.Michael & All Angels Parish Church 
FRIMLEY                       : ENGLAND -SR  chime
   St.Peter Parish Church 
GLANDFORD                     : ENGLAND -NF  chime
   St.Martin Parish Church
GLOUCESTER                    : ENGLAND -GL  chime
   Eastgate Shopping Centre 
GOLDERS GREEN                 : ENGLAND -NW  chime
   St.Alban Martyr and St.Michael Church 
GREAT WARLEY                  : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   Essex Regimental Chapel
   Barracks 
HIGH BEACH                    : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   Church of the Holy Innocents
HOOTON PAGNELL                : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   All Saints Parish Church 
HOUNSLOW                      : ENGLAND -MD  chime
   Holy Trinity Parish Church 
KENILWORTH                    : ENGLAND -WA  chime
   St.John the Evangelist Parish Church
KENNERLEIGH                   : ENGLAND -DE  chime
   St.John the Baptist Anglican Church 
LEE                           : ENGLAND -SE  chime
   St.Margaret Parish Church
LEIGH-ON-SEA                  : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   Our Lady of Lourdes & St.Joseph (RC) 
LEXDEN                        : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   St.Leonard's Parish Church 
LIMEHOUSE                     : ENGLAND -E   chime
   Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Church 
LITTLE WALSINGHAM             : ENGLAND -NF  chime
   Shrine Church of Our Lady of Walsingham
   (The Pilgrim's Hospice) 
LONDON - A                    : ENGLAND -W   trad
   The Atkinson Carillon
   J.Fox & Co.
   (previously Atkinson's Stores) 
LONDON - AH                   : ENGLAND -EC  chime
   McConnell Chime
   All Hallows Church
LONDON - E                    : ENGLAND -W   chime
   Southwest entrance 
   Arcadia Shopping Centre 
LONDON - FM                   : ENGLAND -W   chime
   Fortnum & Mason 
LONDON - HW                   : ENGLAND -EC  chime
   133, Houndsditch 
   (was Hounsditch Warehouse Company) 
LONDON - RE                   : ENGLAND -EC  chime
   The Royal Exchange 
LONDON - SNTO                 : ENGLAND -W   non-trad
   Swiss Centre
LONDON - WBF                  : ENGLAND -E   chime
   Whitechapel Bell Foundry
LOUGHBOROUGH - Mobile         : ENGLAND      chime
   Mobile chime
LOUGHBOROUGH - WM             : ENGLAND -LE  trad
   War Memorial
MANCHESTER - HN               : ENGLAND -LA  chime
   Church of the Holy Name (RC)
MANCHESTER - TH               : ENGLAND -LA  non-trad
   Town Hall
MELLOR                        : ENGLAND -LA  chime
   St.Mary Parish Church 
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE - BJ      : ENGLAND -NM  chime
   SS.James & Basil Parish Church 
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE - CC      : ENGLAND -NM  trad
   Edith Adamson Memorial Carillon
   Civic Centre 
OULTON                        : ENGLAND -ST  chime
   St.Mary's Abbey (RC) 
PARKGATE                      : ENGLAND -CH  trad
   War Memorial Carillon  (WW I)
   Mostyn House School 
POOLE                         : ENGLAND -DO  chime
   The Transfiguration Parish Church 
POULTON                       : ENGLAND -CH  chime
   The Brewhouse Clock Turret
   Poulton Hall
ROEHAMPTON                    : ENGLAND -SW  chime
   St.Joseph RC Church
SAINT HELENS                  : ENGLAND -LA  trad
   St.Mary's, Lowe House, RC Church 
SALTLEY                       : ENGLAND -WA  trad
   Our Lady's Carillon
   Our Lady of the Rosary and 
     St.Thérèse of Lisieux RC Church
SELBY                         : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   St.James the Apostle Parish Church 
SPALDING                      : ENGLAND -LI  non-trad
   South Holland Centre (Civic Centre) 
TOWCESTER                     : ENGLAND -NH  chime/ring
   St.Lawrence Parish Church 
WHITWICK                      : ENGLAND -LE  chime
   Holy Cross Catholic Church 
WYKE                          : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   St.Mary the Virgin Parish Church 
WYTHAM                        : ENGLAND -BR  chime
   All Saints Parish Church 
YORK                          : ENGLAND -YO  trad
   Minster
   (Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of S.Peter)

Ireland (Republic of)

CARRICKMACROSS                : IRELAND -MN  chime
   St.Joseph Catholic Church
COBH                          : IRELAND -CK  trad
   St.Colman's Cathedral (RC)

Northern Ireland

ARMAGH                        : N IRELAND-R  trad
   St.Patrick's Cathedral (R.C.) 
NEWRY                         : N IRELAND-D  chime
   Cathedral of S.Patrick & St.Colman (CI)
PORTADOWN                     : N IRELAND-R  chime
   St.Mark's Church (C.I.)

Scotland

ABERDEEN - STM                : SCOTLAND-AB  chime/ring
   Cathedral Church of St.Mary 
     of the Assumption (RC) 
ABERDEEN - STN                : SCOTLAND-AB  trad
   Municipal Carillon
   St.Nicholas' Church 
BRIDGE OF WEIR                : SCOTLAND-RE  chime
   Mount Zion Church
   Quarriers Homes
   (was Orphan Homes of Scotland)
CLYDEBANK                     : SCOTLAND-SC  chime
   Town Hall 
DUMBARTON                     : SCOTLAND-DB  trad
   St.Patrick's Church (RC) 
DUNDEE                        : SCOTLAND-AN  chime
   St.Andrews Church 
DUNFERMLINE                   : SCOTLAND-FI  non-trad
   Dunfermline Abbey 
FALKIRK                       : SCOTLAND-ST  chime
   "Auld Kirk" Presbyterian Church 
GLASGOW                       : SCOTLAND-LA  chime
   Tolbooth (or) Cross Steeple
GREENOCK                      : SCOTLAND-RE  chime
   St.George North Church (of Scotland)
KILMARNOCK                    : SCOTLAND-AY  trad
   St.Marnock's Parish Church 
     (Church of Scotland) 
KIRKCALDY                     : SCOTLAND-FI  chime
   St.Bricedale Parish Church
LARBERT                       : SCOTLAND-ST  chime
   Old Church 
PAISLEY                       : SCOTLAND-RE  chime
   Town Hall
PEEBLES                       : SCOTLAND-PB  chime
   Old Parish Church
PERTH                         : SCOTLAND-PR  trad
   St.John's Kirk
   (St.John the Baptist Church) 
SAINT ANDREWS                 : SCOTLAND-FI  trad
   Holy Trinity Parish Church 
STIRLING                      : SCOTLAND-ST  chime
   Tolbooth (or) Broad Street Steeple

Shetland Isles

LERWICK                       : SHETLAND IS  chime
   Town Hall

Wales

LLANDAFF                      : WALES - GL   chime
   Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul 
     with Teilo, Dyfrig and Euddogwy
NEWPORT                       : WALES - GT   chime
   St.Mary, Stow Hill, RC Church 
PRESTEIGNE                    : WALES - RD   chime/ring
   St.Andrew Parish Church

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This index page was built from the database on 29-Sep-05 and last revised on 14-Feb-08.

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