PORTET SUR GARONNE : FRANCE - 31

*Location:

   Église Saint-Martin
   Square du 11 Novembre 1918
     (off Hwy.D63)
   Portet sur Garonne,
     Haute-Garonne, France
   LL: N 43.52227, E 1.40683
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Carillonist:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Mairie
   rue de l'hôtel de ville
   31120 Portet sur Garonne
   T: 05 61 72 00 15   F: 05 61 76 77 39
   E: Webform at www.portetgaronne.fr

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Restored and rehung in 1990.
   Hemispherical bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Installation was completed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992
*Links:

The French Wikipedia has a photo of the wall-steeple over the northwest entrance to the building, showing five conventional bells in individual openings.  A stair turret at the northwest corner of the building forms the west end of the multiple bellcote, providing access to walkways across its back side.  The lower walkway extends to the keyboard room cantilevered on the east end of the bellcote below the hemispherical bells.  The perspective view in Google Maps' overhead photography, at maximum zoom, shows this unique installation quite well.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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/Haute-Garonne.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-May-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/07/25
*Photos:

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