Tower-bell instruments in the British Isles:
index by country &county

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 (Republic), Northern Ireland (UK), Scotland (UK), Shetland Isles (UK/Scotland), Wales (UK)

Click on any underlined country name above or county name below to go directly to that section of this index.  Within a country, sites are listed alphabetically by county and city; within a county, sites are listed alphabetically by city name.  (Counties not listed below currently have no entries in this index.)

English counties: Greater London (major London postcodes), Berkshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire
Irish counties: Cork Monaghan
Counties of Northern Ireland: Armagh, Down
Scottish counties: Aberdeen, Angus, Ayr, Dunbartonshire, Fife, Peebles, Perth, Renfrewshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Strathclyde (Lanark)
Counties of Wales: Glamorgan, Gwent, Radnorshire

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:

1. 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; but see note 4 below)

2. Because of the local government reorganizations of 1976 and 1995-8, there are administrative regions which bear the sames names as the centuries-old historical (or ceremonial or geographical) counties but have different boundaries.  There are also administrative regions with new names which have commonly been treated as if they were county names, though they are not.  We have attempted to extract consistency from this bureaucratic mess by relying on The Gazetteer of British Place Names from the Association of British Counties.  Most sites are listed here under the appropriate historical county name, the obvious exception being the central parts of Greater London, which theoretically should be regarded as parts of Kent or Middlesex.  When the various sources of information about listed sites used administrative regions to describe their locations, those regional names have been retained on the site data pages in addition to the actual county names.  The two-letter abbreviations used herein for the historical county names were chosen to retain the alphabetic order of those names, and thus may bear only accidental resemblance to any existing standard for such abbreviations.  Suggestions for improvements of all kinds will be welcomed (see the email link at the bottom of this page).

3. 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.

4. 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.  (A few exceptions have been made for rings of 8 or more bells which are accompanied by at least one bell hung "dead" for chiming, and/or which have an exceptionally interesting secondary mechanism for chiming.)

English counties

Greater London
Grouped here are London postcodes E, EC, NW, SE, SW, W.

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
GOLDERS GREEN                 : ENGLAND -NW  chime
   St.Alban Martyr and St.Michael Church 
LEE                           : ENGLAND -SE  chime
   St.Margaret Parish Church
LIMEHOUSE                     : ENGLAND -E   chime
   Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Church 
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
ROEHAMPTON                    : ENGLAND -SW  chime
   St.Joseph RC Church

WYTHAM                        : ENGLAND -BR  chime
   All Saints Parish Church 

BIRTLES HALL                  : ENGLAND -CH  chime
   St.Catherine Parish Church 
EATON HALL                    : ENGLAND -CH  non-trad
   (Seat of the Duke of Westminster)
   Chapel Tower
PARKGATE                      : ENGLAND -CH  trad
   War Memorial Carillon  (WW I)
   Mostyn House School 
POULTON                       : ENGLAND -CH  chime
   The Brewhouse Clock Turret
   Poulton Hall

ALSTON                        : ENGLAND -CU  chime
   St.Augustine Parish Church 

ALFRETON                      : ENGLAND -DB  chime
   Watchorn Memorial Methodist Church 

KENNERLEIGH                   : ENGLAND -DE  chime
   St.John the Baptist Anglican Church 

POOLE                         : ENGLAND -DO  chime
   The Transfiguration Parish Church 

BECONTREE                     : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   St.Alban Parish Church 
GREAT WARLEY                  : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   Essex Regimental Chapel
   Barracks 
HIGH BEACH                    : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   Church of the Holy Innocents
LEIGH-ON-SEA                  : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   Our Lady of Lourdes & St.Joseph (RC) 
LEXDEN                        : ENGLAND -ES  chime
   St.Leonard's Parish Church 

GLOUCESTER                    : ENGLAND -GL  chime
   Eastgate Shopping Centre 

BLACKBURN                     : ENGLAND -LA  chime
   St.Jude Parish Church
FOULRIDGE                     : ENGLAND -LA  chime
   St.Michael & All Angels Parish Church 
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 
SAINT HELENS                  : ENGLAND -LA  trad
   St.Mary's, Lowe House, RC Church 

LOUGHBOROUGH - Mobile         : ENGLAND      chime
   Mobile chime
LOUGHBOROUGH - WM             : ENGLAND -LE  trad
   War Memorial
WHITWICK                      : ENGLAND -LE  chime
   Holy Cross Catholic Church 

BOSTON - 2                    : ENGLAND -LI  chime
   Boston Parish Church (Boston Stump) 
SPALDING                      : ENGLAND -LI  non-trad
   South Holland Centre (Civic Centre) 

HOUNSLOW                      : ENGLAND -MD  chime
   Holy Trinity Parish Church 

GLANDFORD                     : ENGLAND -NF  chime
   St.Martin Parish Church
LITTLE WALSINGHAM             : ENGLAND -NF  chime
   Shrine Church of Our Lady of Walsingham
   (The Pilgrim's Hospice) 

TOWCESTER                     : ENGLAND -NH  chime/ring
   St.Lawrence 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 

CARLTON                       : ENGLAND -NT  chime
   St.John the Baptist Church 

 [none listed]

OULTON                        : ENGLAND -ST  chime
   St.Mary's Abbey (RC) 

FRIMLEY                       : ENGLAND -SR  chime
   St.Peter Parish Church 

ASHORNE HILL                  : ENGLAND -WA  chime
   The Nickelodeon Collection 
   (Musical museum) 
COVENTRY                      : ENGLAND -WA  chime/ring
   Cathedral Church of St.Michael
KENILWORTH                    : ENGLAND -WA  chime
   St.John the Evangelist Parish Church
SALTLEY                       : ENGLAND -WA  trad
   Our Lady's Carillon
   Our Lady of the Rosary and 
     St.Thérèse of Lisieux RC Church

BOURNVILLE                    : ENGLAND -WO  trad
   The George Cadbury Memorial Carillon
     (The Bournville Carillon)
   School Tower 

ALVERTHORPE                   : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   Victory Carillon
   St.Paul Church
BRADFORD                      : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   Town Hall 
HOOTON PAGNELL                : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   All Saints Parish Church 
SELBY                         : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   St.James the Apostle Parish Church 
WYKE                          : ENGLAND -YW  chime
   St.Mary the Virgin Parish Church 
YORK                          : ENGLAND -YO  trad
   Minster
   (Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of S.Peter)

Irish counties

Cork

COBH                          : IRELAND -CK  trad
   St.Colman's Cathedral (RC) 

CARRICKMACROSS                : IRELAND -MN  chime
   St.Joseph Catholic Church

Counties of Northern Ireland

Armagh

ARMAGH                        : N IRELAND-R  trad
   St.Patrick's Cathedral (R.C.) 
PORTADOWN                     : N IRELAND-R  chime
   St.Mark's Church (C.I.) 

NEWRY                         : N IRELAND-D  chime
   Cathedral of S.Patrick & St.Colman (CI)

Scottish counties

Aberdeen

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 

DUNDEE                        : SCOTLAND-AN  chime
   St.Andrews Church 

KILMARNOCK                    : SCOTLAND-AY  trad
   St.Marnock's Parish Church 
     (Church of Scotland) 

DUMBARTON                     : SCOTLAND-DB  trad
   St.Patrick's Church (RC) 

DUNFERMLINE                   : SCOTLAND-FI  non-trad
   Dunfermline Abbey 
KIRKCALDY                     : SCOTLAND-FI  chime
   St.Bricedale Parish Church
SAINT ANDREWS                 : SCOTLAND-FI  trad
   Holy Trinity Parish Church 

PEEBLES                       : SCOTLAND-PB  chime
   Old Parish Church

PERTH                         : SCOTLAND-PR  trad
   St.John's Kirk
   (St.John the Baptist Church) 

BRIDGE OF WEIR                : SCOTLAND-RE  chime
   Mount Zion Church
   Quarriers Homes
   (was Orphan Homes of Scotland)
GREENOCK                      : SCOTLAND-RE  chime
   St.George North Church (of Scotland)
PAISLEY                       : SCOTLAND-RE  chime
   Town Hall

LERWICK                       : SHETLAND IS  chime
   Town Hall 

FALKIRK                       : SCOTLAND-ST  chime
   "Auld Kirk" Presbyterian Church 
LARBERT                       : SCOTLAND-ST  chime
   Old Church 
STIRLING                      : SCOTLAND-ST  chime
   Tolbooth (or) Broad Street Steeple

CLYDEBANK                     : SCOTLAND-SC  chime
   Town Hall 
GLASGOW                       : SCOTLAND-LA  chime
   Tolbooth (or) Cross Steeple

Welsh counties

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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