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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The details of the Devonport Chapel bells =
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24/7/04) show that they pre-date the building of Princetown church by a num=
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of years. One wonders what did happen to the bells originally intended for=
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Princetown if, indeed, they were ever cast?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Looking through some ms notes by James Jer=
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Devon bells, the following is of interest: of the 1 and 2 of the 8 he says:=
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"Cast on the spot under the direction of William Bannister". However, no de=
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of the bells given. Pearson's 'The Ringer's Guide to The Church Bells of De=
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says that the two trebles were given by local ringers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Under Devonport St Paul, Jerram says that =
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ancient bell was brought from St Alban's, Worcester in 1851. "It is suppose=
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have been cast by Thomas de Lenne (Lynn)" However, Walters, in his CB Worcs=
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says that formerly there were two bells at St Alban's which were sold in 18=
51 by=20
the architect, J. Piers St Aubyn, for the new church at Devonport St James =
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he was then erecting. The bells were sold for =A327. The other and smaller =
bell is=20
said to be by Richard Dawkes. 1630. I believe that St Paul's Church, Devonp=
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still stands?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>NS</FONT></DIV>
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