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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:1=
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font-family:Arial'>I've just been looking at the Salisbury DG website, and
there's a fair amount of bell detail on there:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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0.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href=3D"http://www.sdgr.org.uk/"
title=3D"http://www.sdgr.org.uk/">http://www.sdgr.org.uk/</a></span></font>=
<o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>David</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:
"Courier New";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt=
:auto'><font
size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-fam=
ily:Arial;
color:navy'>Thanks. I will forward the above to those doing the hard =
work.
It’s nice to have it appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt=
:auto'><font
size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-fam=
ily:Arial;
color:navy'>Found out an interesting thing about Urchfont, which Walters
thought might be a very old 8 on par with Bishops Cannings. According=
to
an 1899 newspaper cutting there were 6 bells until the two bells from nearb=
y Stert
were added; an ancient treble and a Purdue of 1664. Subsequent resear=
ch
seems to confirm this: the work seems to have been done around 1803-5=
and
the current bell at Stert is a Wells bell of 1804. </span></font><fon=
t
size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Th=
e
churchwardens’ return for the1662 Bishop’s Visitation to Stert
gives Edward Lyne (sic) and Robert Dorchester as the churchwardens, the sam=
e as
on the 1664 bell. There is also a section that says ‘Moreover w=
e
present the inhabitants there [Stert] for not newe casting the seconde bell=
which
is slatten [cracked]. In smaller writing is a note ‘to be cast =
by
midsommer next.’ Given the large number of bells that the Purdu=
es
cast for Wiltshire around this time, it’s no wonder they had to wait =
two
years for a new bell.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o=
:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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:auto'><font
size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An=
ne Willis<font
color=3Dnavy><span style=3D'color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></f=
ont></p>
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:auto'><font
size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-fam=
ily:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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