------=_NextPart_000_07AC_01C58714.16B54000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Winksley N Yorks 4 UK 3' 6" 13-1-22 748 F# 1915 200/151=20=20=20=20=20 Are these the only complete Taylor ring to have been cast during WWI? I can= 't see any others on the list, and indeed there are very few individual bel= ls - only the 3rd at Exeter Cathedral, also 1915, springs to mind. Were the= bells actually cast in the thick of war, or later and dated retrospectivel= y? The Winksley installation is an interesting one. The tower is large (18 foo= t square), and the bells hang in a line across the middle, all swinging eas= t-west. This would mean that augmentation would not be straightforward, but= this configuration is the most economical on frame components, which is pr= esumably why it was adopted. There is a story about the Winksley bells, which may be true or may be apoc= ryphal. The bells were given in memory of a soldier who had been killed in = the war, and, so the story goes, the donors of the bells asked the church h= ow many bells they wanted. The church replied to the effect that four shoul= d be enough, and so four were ordered. As I say, whether this is true I hav= e no idea, but the tower could certainly hold a much larger ring. It's only= six inches smaller than the tower at Leeds Parish, with a 40cwt ring of 12= +1. David ------=_NextPart_000_07AC_01C58714.16B54000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Winksley N Yorks 4 UK 3' 6" 13-1-22 748 F# 1915 200/151    
 
Are these the only complete Taylor ring to have been cast during WWI? = I=20 can't see any others on the list, and indeed there are very few individual = bells=20 - only the 3rd at Exeter Cathedral, also 1915, springs to mind. Were the be= lls=20 actually cast in the thick of war, or later and dated retrospectively?
 
The Winksley installation is an interesting one. The tower is large (1= 8=20 foot square), and the bells hang in a line across the middle, all swinging= =20 east-west. This would mean that augmentation would not be straightforward, = but=20 this configuration is the most economical on frame components, which is=20 presumably why it was adopted.
 
There is a story about the Winksley bells, which may be true or may be= =20 apocryphal. The bells were given in memory of a soldier who had been killed= in=20 the war, and, so the story goes, the donors of the bells asked the church h= ow=20 many bells they wanted. The church replied to the effect that four should b= e=20 enough, and so four were ordered. As I say, whether this is true I have no = idea,=20 but the tower could certainly hold a much larger ring. It's only six inches= =20 smaller than the tower at Leeds Parish, with a 40cwt ring of 12+1.
 
David
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