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<DIV><FONT color=3D#808000 face=3DArial size=3D2>Of course, Sir Walter Tapp=
er, not=20
Temple Moore. Their stately Gothic style has much in common.</FONT></D=
IV>
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#808000 face=3DArial size=3D2>Re: the weights of the new=
chime; the=20
sixth is 8-2-18, not the same as the seventh!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#808000 face=3DArial size=3D2>I shall have to stop writi=
ng emails=20
late at night!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#808000 face=3DArial size=3D2>D</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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m:</B>=20
<A href=3D"mailto:aaspland@y..." title=3Daaspland@y...>Andr=
ew=20
Aspland</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</A>=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1=
0:04=20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Chi=
ming=20
Hammers</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><SPAN class=3D784085108-06082003>Re:&=
nbsp; St=20
Mary's Low Harrogate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D784085108-06082003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When the church was rebuilt by Temple =
Moore a=20
new central tower was erected, having only a lofty ground floor and the=
=20
present chiming chamber and the bell chamber above that. Owing to=
=20
doubts about stability (which persist to-day) the bells which were goin=
g to=20
be recast anyway were made to a chiming scale:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D784085108-06082003><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DAria=
l=20
size=3D2>According to Pevsner St Mary's is by Walter Tapper (also respo=
nsible=20
for the East end of the college of the Resurection, Mirfield). Te=
mple=20
Moor built St Wilfrid's which is similar in its cruciform design but ea=
rlier=20
and far finer. The structure, or at least the surface of the=20
structure, continues to be a problem at St Mary's - there is hardly a=20
surface which isn't crumbling away - and the church and diocese might n=
ow be=20
looking for a radical solution to the 90 year old=20
problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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l=20
size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2>What a tragedy about the peal bo=
ard - one=20
may be forgiven for hoping that the bits were carefully retrieved and m=
ight=20
one day be restored.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT color=3D#0000ff size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D784085108-06082003>They are all pieced together in the chiming =
chamber=20
- I shall get on to the case.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D784085108-06082003></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D784085108-06082003>Andrew</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=3D784085108-06082003> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></DI=
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