Bell Tower equipment
More than 150 years of Bell and Clock craftsmanship to safeguard your architectural heritage
Since 1868, Bodet Campanaire has been making and restoring all the components for your bell and clock towers in its workshops in France Belfry, headstock, louvres, safety access. Bodet Campanaire helps you to keep time in your towns and villages by automating the chimes on your bells and churches.
Bodet, the No. 1 French bell and clock manufacturer
Bodet Campanaire designs all the components for bell towers in its workshops in Trémentines in the Maine-et-Loire department (49): Belfries, Louvres, Headstock, Bells Although the techniques have changed, the various bell and clock craftsmanship professions still aim to preserve the authenticity of your architectural heritage.
Over the years, Bodet Campanaire has found solutions to the various needs of towns and villages. Electrification of bell ringing enables a harmonious, tuneful sound to be rung out in towns and villages, and above all makes programming of bell ringing very simple.
Access to bells is often very ancient and not usually safety compliant for workers. To secure vertical and horizontal movement, Bodet Campanaire installs gangways and lifelines suited to the configuration of the site to facilitate access to the building.
Bell tower components
Lightning rod and lightning protection
Air terminal, conducting cable, surge arrester, ground rod, potential equalisation
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Set of downward facing slats fitted to bell towers
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Securing technical access: vertical or horizontal lifelines, floor, gangway and handrails, caged ladder, ladder trap
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Powers and protects the bell tower electrical installation
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Programmable bell automation command centre (hourly chime, angelus, funeral toll, etc.)
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Custom manufacture or restoration of enamel, acrylic glass, aluminium, skeleton or backlit
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Bells are rung for funeral tolls, peals and hourly chimes
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Enables bells to be swung in a controlled way using a programmable electronic unit.
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Frame, usually made of oak, that supports the bells inside the bell chamber.
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Restoration, automation and maintenance
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Also called the yoke, this is made of solid oak and is the element to which the bell is attached
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