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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>If we are counting ex-three's then I belie=
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Stretton (nr Burton) were at least diatonic! All by Mears 1896 weighing 13.=
2.11,=20
17.2.9 and 25.1.10. I don't have any hanging details but they were replaced=
by a=20
light Taylor six in 1960. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Stuart</FONT></DIV>
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<A href=3D"mailto:dave@d..."=20
title=3Ddave@d...>David Cawley</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:01=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Re:=
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Heaviest Three</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Some of the London towers do contain str=
ange=20
combinations of bells. As to whether a ring of three is a ring of t=
hree,=20
the answer is surely "If there are three bells hung for full-circle ringi=
ng",=20
even if the frame is built for more.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I think my all-time heaviest three would=
have=20
been All Saints, Margaret Street, London, that notable Anglo-Catholic=20
shrine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Treble 30.15/16" Eb</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Second (i.e. 4th in 8) 36.15/16" Bb</FON=
T></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tenor: 53.7/8" Eb c.28-cwt</FONT><=
/DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>On all: CAST BY JOHN WARNER & S=
ONS=20
LONDON 1858. / (Royal Arms) / PATENT </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>They were hung for ringing in a frame fo=
r five;=20
in 1966 the wheels were in bits. The two vacant pits implied that t=
he=20
never added bells would have been 2 and 6 in 8.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>They were replicas of 1,4, and 8 of E. B=
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Denison's Doncaster ring, and cast to his specifications (at a significan=
t=20
date !); oddly the treble has six canons, whilst the two larger bells hav=
e=20
Doncaster heads. The treble also had a cast-in staple with the two=
=20
others having independent ones.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>About 1967, Mears broke the tenor up in =
the=20
tower, so presumably there is an exact scrapping weight, and rehung the t=
wo=20
smaller bells 'dead' on the five-bell frame. Thus passed the heavie=
st=20
three.........(?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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rom:</B>=20
<A href=3D"mailto:DrLove@s..." title=3DDrLove@s...>LOVE, Dickon</=
A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
href=3D"mailto:'bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com'"=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>'bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com'=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9=
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AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] R=
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Heaviest Three</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Another heavy one is Knightsbridge, St Paul (Wilton=
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Place). 3 bells tenor<BR>20-0-11.<BR>They are not now ringable, but I d=
o=20
have some pictures on Church Bells of<BR>Westminster (which won't be mu=
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use to anyone as I haven't ftp'd it yet,<BR>but I may put this page up =
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