The association between carillons and peace started in the First World War. From 1914 on, many bells were silenced by the terrors of war, and as a result, poets in Belgium, England, France and the USA dreamt that they would sound again when peace would return to the world.
Aarschot Peace Carillon, Peace Carillon in the Church of Our Lady, Aarschot (Belgium)
Albany, City Hall Carillon (New York, USA)
Bathurst, War Memorial Carillon (Australia)
Cape Town, Women’s War Memorial (South Africa)
Dinant, Carillon of Our Lady’s Church (Belgium)
Godalming, World War I Memorial Carillon (United Kingdom)
Heiligerlee, National Monument for Mobilisation Victims of the First World War (The Netherlands)
Leuven, American Engineers’ Memorial Carillon and Clock (Belgium)
Leuven, Peace Carillon in Park Abbey (Belgium)
Loughborough, War Memorial Carillon (United Kingdom)
Mercersburg, The Swoope Carillon
Nashville, World War I Memorial Carillon (Tennessee, USA)
Ottawa, Peace Tower Carillon (Ontario, Canada)
Rochester, The Rochester Carillon (Minnesota, USA)
Sydney, University of Sydney War Memorial Carillon (Australia)
Toronto, Soldiers’ Tower Carillon (Ontario, Canada)
Wellington, National War Memorial Carillon (New Zealand)
Ypres, Carillon of the Cloth Hall (Belgium)