*Location:

   Église Saint-Vaast
   Pl. du Général de Gaulle
   Hondschoote, Nord, France
   LL: N 50.98154, E 2.58619

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City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Carillonist:

   Alfred Lesecq, carillonneur
     & president GCF
   3 route de la maison blanche
   59492 Hoymille
   H: 328 687 031   W: 325 682 927
   E: alfred.lesecq@wanadoo.fr

   Paul Bourgois  (assistant)

*Contact:

   Office de Tourisme
   T: (03)28 62 53 00
   - or -
   Mairie
   T:(03)28 68 31 55

*Schedule:

   1200 Sunday;
   auto-play every quarter-hour
   via electropneumatics in clavier.

*Remarks:

   Old bells partially by Esquelbecq;
   confiscated during the Revolution.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 61 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     A#C 62/    A#G   
   Transposition is up  4 semitone(s), i.e., from C to E 
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is a practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1999
     with bells made by Paccard          
   Prior history:
     In 1595, a complete instrument of 16 bells was installed
       by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

The GCF page about this carillon has a description and two small photos, which cannot be enlarged.

The French Wikipedia page about the town has photos of the building but does not mention the carillon.

Photos of the building

The ARPAC Website (archived 2019) presents much more detail than we can here, though it is all in French.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all French traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in France.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Nord.

   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/02/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/04/07