Location Name - Perth - Bell Tower
Riverside Drive
Perth 6831

County/Council: City of Perth
Region: Perth
Location ID: 10083576


 
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CITIES / TOWNS / SUBURBS - Downtowns / CBD
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INDUSTRIAL - Towers

Description:
Rising to 82.5 metres, the concrete Bell Tower was constructed to mark the dawn of the new millennium. The Swan Bells are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built 82.5 metres (271 ft)-high 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 one of the largest sets of change ringing bells in the world. 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.

Jurisdictions::
City of Perth

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