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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This leads almost naturally to change-ring=
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graffiti, and opens the door also to the commonplace.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Of particular significance are the painted=
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"changed" on the west wall of the present ringing chamber of Canterbury=20
Cathedral - it was also the ringing chamber until 1726 when the tower held =
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lighter of the Cathedral's two rings of six. When the old twelv=
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were displaced by the present ring in 1981 considerable effort went in to=20
conserving this part of the Cathedral's history, the changes being (apparen=
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part of 120 Plain Changes on five with the tenor covering. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Two poignant reminders of former ringing=20
history. One of the "written on the clock case" type was referre=
d to=20
by CJP in a letter to me twenty years ago, in the old tower at Woburn, Beds=
(not=20
sure whether it's still there). The other is the 17thC example=20
painted on the walls of the belfry at St Giles, Imber, in the Salisbury Pla=
in=20
Battle Area. They are well documented and illustrated in <EM>Cha=
nge=20
Ringing: The History of an English Art Pt I</EM>, pp 46-47; they are dated=
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1682. The last CCC Pastoral Measure Report on this church found these=
to=20
be in a rather fragile condition and underlined their importance.</FONT></D=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Anyone ever tried ringing Plain Changes ? =
Not as=20
easy as one might think.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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title=3Dian@i...>ian johnson</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 13, 2003 9:07 P=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Tower=20
graffiti</DIV>
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<DIV>The boot & shoe prints mentioned by several correspondants are m=
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likely to be plumbers marks on repair work etc. We have some here at Mash=
am on=20
the spire floor lead .</DIV>
<DIV>A tradition here at Masham was to make your mark on the clock case d=
oors,=20
so much so that we were not allowed to get rid of them, they are now=20
considered to be historic examples of tower graffiti.</DIV>
<DIV>Yours Ian J</DIV>
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