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<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><SPAN class=3D784085108-06082003>Re:&nb=
sp; St=20
Mary's Low Harrogate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When the church was rebuilt by Temple Mo=
ore a new=20
central tower was erected, having only a lofty ground floor and the prese=
nt=20
chiming chamber and the bell chamber above that. Owing to doubts ab=
out=20
stability (which persist to-day) the bells which were going to be recast=
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anyway were made to a chiming scale:</FONT></DIV>
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size=3D2>According to Pevsner St Mary's is by Walter Tapper (also respons=
ible=20
for the East end of the college of the Resurection, Mirfield). Temp=
le=20
Moor built St Wilfrid's which is similar in its cruciform design but earl=
ier=20
and far finer. The structure, or at least the surface of the struct=
ure,=20
continues to be a problem at St Mary's - there is hardly a surface which =
isn't=20
crumbling away - and the church and diocese might now be looking for a ra=
dical=20
solution to the 90 year old problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2>What a tragedy about the peal boar=
d - one=20
may be forgiven for hoping that the bits were carefully retrieved and mig=
ht=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 ch=
amber -=20
I shall get on to the case.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<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></DIV>=
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