37 South Tower’s Bells

For the 9 o’clock strikes

Measurements: 1.21 m diameter by 1.10 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 436 Kg.

Name: this one is used to sound the nine o’clock chimes to call the Canons to the daily prayer of Laudes, which is held at half past nine.

Smelting year: 1609 by Juan de Villanueva.

Little Bell

Measurements: 0.50 m diameter by 0.60 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 72 Kg.

Name: “Cimbalillo”, or “little bell” given its small size and stretched shape.

Use: this bell is used to start the chiming of the other bells in the towers. This is why, differently to the other bells, its cord extended outside the tower to a window of the bell-ringer’s house from where the main altar could be seen.

Smelting year: 1609 probably also by Juan de Villanueva.

La Juana

Measurements: 1.30 m diameter by 1.25 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 833 Kg.

Name: from the invocation to Saint John the Baptist which it features in an engraving in Latin: “Saint John the Baptist, pray for us”.

Smelting year: 1792 by José Marcout.

Silver

Measurements: 0.80 m diameter by 0.80 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 319 Kg.

Name: surely due to its whiter original colour.

Use: it was used, along with the Infants’ bell (Párvulos) when a child died before the use of reason.

Smelting year: 1792 by José Marcout.

Prayers

Measurements: 1.50 m diameter by 1.30 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 1,331 Kg.

Name: due to its daily use.

Use: it was used to call to prayers on working days, Sundays and minor festivities.

Smelting year: 1802 by Bernardo de Mendoza based on another bell that cracked.

Gabriela

Measurements: 1.67 m diameter by 1.35 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 2,697 kg.

Name: it gets its name from the Archangel Saint Gabriel, whose Incarnation message is engraved in Latin on the bell itself.

Use: it is currently cracked. It probably cracked during a celebration that lasted for hours in the evening in the 19th to 20th century.

Smelting year: 18 July 1519

For infants

Measurements: 0.80 m diameter by 0.75 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 225 Kg.

Name: given due to its particular use.

Use: used along with the silver bell when a child died.

Smelting year: 1792 by José Marcout.

Saint Bárbara

Measurements: 0.51 m diameter by 0.59 m height in the vessel.

Weight: approximately, 77 Kg.

Name: from the invocation to Saint Bárbara which it features in an engraving in Latin.

Use: when there was a storm. Saint Bárbara is, according to tradition, the protecting Saint in storms.

Smelting year: 1836.

Ursúa Irigoyen, I., Las campanas de la catedral de Pamplona, Pamplona, Capilla de Música, Catedral M. de Pamplona, 1984. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/libro?codigo=212173

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