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<DIV><SPAN class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>There
are probably several more Commonwealth churches in Scotland to add to New
Cumnock, which is one I hadn't come across before. Unfortunately as the
Buildings of Scotland series is as yet incomplete, less information is
available. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Inverness Old High Kirk was extensively repaired in 1649
and the top part of the tower is reckoned to date from them. It acquired
a new bell shortly afterwards. The church guide gives the inscription
as "Johannes Burgeses Luys me fecit 1658 Soli Deo Gloria" - the founder's name
is presumably miscopied and should be Burgerhuys. <SPAN
class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The detached bell
tower at Ardclach (Nairnshire) was built in 1655 but I have no information
about its bell. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Further south
Dunscore, north of Dumfries, had a new church built in 1649 but it was later
demolished and replaced by the present one of 1823-4.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Of the
English examples, t<SPAN class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>he old church at Taynton was destroyed in 1643. The new one
was built in 1647-48 by order of Parliament so strictly speaking it's pre
Commonwealth. My source gives the date of Charles Church in Plymouth as
1640-1658, so <SPAN class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I assume that originally it was called something else.
Does anybody know what?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=687524118-07032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Peter
Rivet</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Andrew Wilby<BR><B>Sent:</B> 07 March 2006 17:02<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Cromwell's
Churches<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT>I have gleaned the following so far although
I doubt it to be <BR>comprehensive...<BR><BR>Taynton Glos 1642<BR>Holy Trinity
Berwick-on-Tweed 1650/2<BR>Staunton Harold 1653<BR>Stokesay Castle Salop
1654<BR>Charles Church Plymouth - now a WW2 ruin...... such a dedication
during this <BR>period??<BR>New Cumnock Ayrshire 1657<BR><BR><BR>Stockton
Parish Church certainly isn't despite the rumour.<BR><BR>Andrew<BR><BR></TT></BODY></HTML>