[Bell Historians] Warrington / Higher Walton, St John Evangelist

[c.j.pickford at talk21.com]

Grosvenor Avenue, indeed (my transcription error – sorry)

 

Chris Pickford

Westray, Bowling Green Lane, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1DS

Tel: 07811-453525

e-mail:  <mailto:pickford5040 at gmail.com> pickford5040 at gmail.com

 

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https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/9235199.padgate-brownies-group-have-new-base/

 

Suggests that it was repurposed about 10 years ago and is in Grosvenor Avenue, not Street.

 

I think that this might be it, no 32.

 

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Mike

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Can help identify Warrington St.John. It is/was a Mission Church in Grosvenor Street. Here are the main details of the single bell from the Taylor records of 1936:

 

Warrington, St.John's Mission Church, Lancs: Taylor index - 1936, one bell, 2 cwt; job book vol.342 p.60 - 1. 21⅛” 1549hz 1-3-20. Hung dead; Inscription book 1936 p.73 - 21” bell, 242 / JOHN TAYLOR & CO. * FOUNDERS * LOUGHBOROUGH * 1936 *; Daybook vol.21 p.128 – 27 June 1936, Bell 21” 1-3-20 for St.John’s Mission Church, Warrington, invoiced to Messrs. William & Segar Owen, Chartered & Registered Architects, Palmyra Square Chambers, Warrington. Supplied with lever clapper with trigger action. Total charge £29.4.6., Sent to Harry Fairclough, Building Contractor, St.John’s Mission Church, Grosvenor Street, Warrington.

 

Similar details for Higher Walton – a Taylor bell of 1883 – are:

 

Higher Walton (near Warrington), St.John the Evangelist, Cheshire: Taylor index - 1883, one bell, 23 cwt; Copy book 56 p.4 - Taylor Bell 49⅜", 22-2-24 [double-checked], forwarded 9 March 1883; Daybook 5 p.72 - 17 March 1883. Sir Gilbert Greenall Bart, Walton Hall, Warrington. To one new bell 22-2-24 at £6.6. per cwt £143.2.0., Fittings frame and fixing £49, inscription (22 letters) 5s.6d, total £183.7.6. Settled 14 May 1883

 

Chris Pickford

Knighton, Powys, LD7 1DS

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