The Swan Bells are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built 82.5 metre copper and glass campanile in Perth, Western Australia. The tower is commonly known as The Bell Tower or the Swan Bell Tower.Taking their name from the Swan River, which their tower overlooks, and forming a sixteen-bell peal with two extra chromatic notes, they are the second largest set of change ringing bells in the world, the largest being Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, which has nineteen bells.Twelve of the set are historic bells from St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square in London; six others, cast in recent times by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, round off the set. The St Martin-in-the-Fields bells were donated to the State of Western Australia as part of the 1988 Australian bicentenary celebrations; the additional bells were cast with a subsequent donation of…
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Bells
Official Website http://swanbells.com.au/
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Email info@thebelltower.com.au
Phone +61 8 6210 0444
Address Barrack Square, Riverside Drive, Perth WA 6000, Australia
Coordinates -31°57'32.365" N 115°51'29.491" E