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Time and Tide Bell
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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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Appledore
Appledore
Bosta Beach
Bosta Beach
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Aberdyfi
Aberdyfi
Cemaes
Cemaes
Morecambe
Morecambe
Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe
Brixham
Brixham
Happisburgh
Happisburgh
Harwich
Harwich
Isle of Wight
Isle of
Wight
Par
Par
Redcar
Redcar
Locations of the bells (those not yet installed marked with a hollow marker)

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.

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Location of the bells

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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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