Time and Tide Bell

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Locations of the bells (those not yet installed marked with a hollow marker)

Time and Tide Bell is an art project made up of bells, designed by UK sculptor Marcus Vergette and Australian bell designer Neil McLachlan, [1] installed at coastal locations in the UK. The first one was placed at Appledore, Devon, in 2009 and the seventh at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire in June 2019. As of 2021 at least six further bells are planned, [2] and funding obtained from the National Lottery Heritage Fund in 2018 will allow for up to sixteen bells in all to be installed. [3]

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Each bell rings around high tide; the bells provide a reminder that rising sea levels caused by climate change will make the pattern of their ringing change. There is every chance that some of the bells will have to be relocated in the twenty-first century.

Location of the bells

LocationDate installedNoteCoordinatesImageRefs
Appledore, Devon, EnglandJuly 2009 51°03′19″N4°11′28″W / 51.055155°N 4.191194°W / 51.055155; -4.191194 River Torridge, Appledore, Devon (geograph 4714078) (cropped) (cropped).jpg [4] [5] [6]
Bosta Beach, Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, ScotlandJune 2010 58°15′26″N6°52′53″W / 58.257104°N 6.881468°W / 58.257104; -6.881468 Time and Tide Bell, Bostadh (geograph 5895883).jpg [7] [8]
Trinity Buoy Wharf, LondonSeptember 2010 51°30′27″N0°00′30″E / 51.507455°N 0.008271°E / 51.507455; 0.008271 Trinity Buoy Wharf - Time and Tide Bell (geograph 6779534).jpg [9] [10]
Aberdyfi, Gwynedd, WalesJuly 2011Beneath the pier 52°33′23″N4°01′45″W / 52.556282°N 4.029105°W / 52.556282; -4.029105 Time and Tide Bell beneath Aberdovey pier (geograph 6408548).jpg [11] [12]
Cemaes, Anglesey, WalesApril 2014Also known as St Patrick's Bell 53°24′48″N4°26′52″W / 53.413454°N 4.44772°W / 53.413454; -4.44772 Cemaes 2015 2.jpg [13] [14]
Morecambe, Lancashire, EnglandMarch 2019On the north side of the landward end of the Stone Jetty 54°04′25″N2°52′37″W / 54.073558°N 2.876932°W / 54.073558; -2.876932 Time and Tide Bell, Stone Jetty, Morecambe 02.jpg [15] [16]
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, EnglandJune 2019 53°21′57″N0°15′06″E / 53.365872°N 0.251669°E / 53.365872; 0.251669 Lincolnshire Time and Tide Bell (2) (geograph 6926857).jpg [17] [18]
Harwich, Essex, EnglandSeptember 2022Next to Low Lighthouse 51°56′48″N1°17′24″E / 51.946663°N 1.289935°E / 51.946663; 1.289935 [19] [20]
Par, Cornwall, EnglandApril 2023Par Beach 50°20′44″N4°42′06″W / 50.345567°N 4.701534°W / 50.345567; -4.701534 [21] [22] [23]
Brixham, Devon, EnglandJune 2023Breakwater Beach 50°24′00″N3°30′15″W / 50.399963°N 3.504129°W / 50.399963; -3.504129 Time and Tide Bell (geograph 7507561).jpg [24] [25] [26] [22] [27]
Happisburgh, Norfolk, EnglandJuly 2023 52°49′28″N1°31′53″E / 52.824314°N 1.531451°E / 52.824314; 1.531451 Tidal Bell (geograph 7590922).jpg [28] [29]
Isle of Wight, off Hampshire, EnglandUnder development 50°40′N1°16′W / 50.667°N 1.267°W / 50.667; -1.267 [30]
Redcar, North Yorkshire, EnglandUnder development 54°37′4″N1°4′8″W / 54.61778°N 1.06889°W / 54.61778; -1.06889 [31]


Associated artworks

Sounds from the bells are featured on Vergette's album Tintinnabulation, released in March 2023 by the label Nonclassical. [32]

The Time and Tide Bell Organisation have commissioned COTIDAL, a film by the Devon-based artist Tania Kovats. The intention is for the completed film to track high tide around the UK, and be 24 hours 50 minutes long. The first hour long chapter premiered in Appledore in September 2022. [33] [34]

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  1. ↑ "Bell Design". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Map of the Bells". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  3. ↑ "The Project". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "Appledore, Devon". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Appledore 'tide bell' approved". North Devon Gazette. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "Appledore Time and Tide Bell, Devon". Public Art Online. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Time and Tide Bell - Bosta - Isle of Lewis - Western Isles". Virtual Hebrides. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "Bosta Beach, Lewis". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  9. ↑ Joint, Laura (3 September 2010). "Tidal bells strike the right note for Marcus Vergette". BBC News. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  10. ↑ "Trinity Buoy Wharf". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  11. ↑ "Bell to ring out in Aberdyfi". North Wales Live. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  12. ↑ "Aberdyfi, Gwynedd". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "Cemaes Bay (Traeth Mawr)". Wales Beach Guide. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  14. ↑ "Cemaes Bay, Anglesey". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  15. ↑ "Time and Tide Bell". Morecambe Artists Colony. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  16. ↑ "Morecambe Bay, Lancashire". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  17. ↑ Lincolnshire Time and Tide Bell CIC (21 June 2019). "Mablethorpe hosts the latest Time and Tide Bell for Lincolnshire" . Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  18. ↑ "Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  19. ↑ "Harwich, Essex". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  20. ↑ "The Harwich bell is installed". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  21. ↑ "Par, Cornwall". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  22. 1 2 Oldfield, Ed (12 February 2020). "Brixham to get a tide bell". Radio Exe. Retrieved 5 February 2021. Another bell is proposed at Par in Cornwall.
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  28. ↑ "Happisburgh Time and Tide Bell" . Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  29. ↑ "The Spirit of Haisbro'". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  30. ↑ "Isle of Wight". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  31. ↑ "Redcar, Yorkshire". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  32. ↑ "Tintinnabulation – Marcus Vergette". nonclassical. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  33. ↑ "COTIDAL". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  34. ↑ "COTIDAL: New film talks to Appledore residents about living by the sea". North Devon Gazette. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

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