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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DTahoma><span style=
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10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> David Bryant
[mailto:david@b...]<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 22 July 2003 15:21<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Bell Historians<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Bell Historians] T=
aunton
& Somerset Founders</span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmp=
tyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:36.0pt'><tt><font size=3D2 color=
=3Dnavy
face=3D"Courier New"><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier N=
ew";
color:navy'>Does </span></font></tt><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack
face=3D"Courier New"><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier N=
ew";
color:black'>any</span></font></tt><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy
face=3D"Courier New"><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier N=
ew";
color:navy'>o</span></font></tt><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Co=
urier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>ne come ac=
ross a
reliable source for the 19-3-14 given by Dove</span></font></tt><font size=
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color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-fam=
ily:"Courier New";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><br>
<tt>for the tenor at St James? Neither George Massey nor myself found</tt><=
br>
<tt>any source for this, and from its dimensions I doubt if the bell is mor=
e</tt><br>
<tt>than about 18 cwt.</tt></span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy
face=3D"Courier New"><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier N=
ew";
color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![i=
f !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ther=
e
still seems to be a number of spurious “exact” tenor weights in=
Dove, even if
one does not include instances where the canons have been removed without t=
he
bell being re-weighed. Earlier this year I looked into a few missing detail=
s
with Nick Bowden for his South Gloucestershire list, and found spurious exa=
ct
tenor weights at three towers within a few miles of each other. Tytheringto=
n, given
as 12-0-18, has a Taylor treble, but apart from this do not appear to have =
had
any attention since the L & J rehang of 1884. The tenor, at 37 inches
diameter, is too small to be 12-0-18; could in be just co-incidence that Ty=
soe,
Warks, the tower above Tytherington in Dove, is also 12-0-18? Tortworth, wh=
ere
the Jefferies & Price tenor is given as 12-2-25, were rehung by Taylors=
in 1959,
but one of the very kind “founts of all knowledge” checked the =
appropriate
details, and found that the work had been carried out in the tower. This te=
nor
would most likely weigh around 12=BD cwt.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></=
p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![i=
f !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The =
most
interesting of the three was Iron Acton - given as 13-0-23 in F. The tenor =
is
actually <i><span style=3D'font-style:italic'>heavier</span></i><span
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> than the Dove weight, at around 15=BD=
cwt.
Five lighter Taylor bells were added in 1884 to a Jefferies & Price bel=
l,
but a check of the records revealed that the tenor had never left the tower=
.
13-0-23 was the as-cast weight of the fifth, which Taylors had mistakenly p=
ut
on the invoice instead of the finished weight. The tenor, 44 5/8 inches in
diameter, has never been weighed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p=
>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-b=
idi-font-style:
italic'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font>=
</span></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-b=
idi-font-style:
italic'>I’ll offer a final case - Shepton Mallett, Somerset. Tenor gi=
ven as 24-3-25,
cast by Thomas Rudhall in 1773, was rehung by L & J in 1910 with the ca=
nons
removed. Neither of the all-knowing Christophers can find a source for the
24-3-25; at 51=BC inches in diameter, I calculate the tenor to weigh around=
23=BD
cwt.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-b=
idi-font-style:
italic'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font>=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle18><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy=
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-b=
idi-font-style:
italic'>Andrew Bull<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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ack
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><span
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font color=3Dblack>=
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style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p=
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