A national community arts project to make a permanent installation of the Time and Tide Bell at the high tide mark at various points around the UK coastline.
The rise of the water at high tide moves the clapper to strike the bell. Played by the movement of the waves, the bell creates a varying, gentle, musical pattern.
Each site of a Time and Tide Bell tells its own unique story. Although the sculptor Marcus Vergette has chosen the site he does not wish to exert any control over the sculpture once installed.
Each bell has a locally chosen inscription on the clapper, often a piece of poetry. Here in Happisburgh the bell will mark a point of reflection about the power of nature and mankind's accommodation of change.
Other locations are:
Appledore (Devon) Aberdyfi (West Wales)
Bosta (Isle of Lewis), Cemaes (North Wales)
Trinity Wharf (Thames, London)
