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<DIV><SPAN class=500341817-11052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
answer to your first question, no as St Michael le Belfry is in
High Petergate. Grape Lane runs between Swinegate and Low Petergate,
some distance away and as the English Place Names Society volume on York
and the East Riding points out (p. 289), its other name is a common one "as
applied to any dark alley". In Lancaster there is a passage
called Bashfull Alley which appears to have been renamed for the same
reason.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=500341817-11052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As for
the more relevant question to this group, did it ever have a ring of bells - did
it ever have a tower? It seems unlikely. The present church was
completed in 1537, to replace one which was pulled down in 1525. The
present bellcote dates from 1848.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=500341817-11052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>PLR</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>Dickon Love<BR><B>Sent:</B> 11 May 2006 14:41<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Grape Lane
church<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Given its proximity to Grape Lane, was St
Michael-le-Belfrey ever known <BR>as St Michael's, Gropecunt Lane? If so, it
makes you wonder what the <BR>present congregation might think about it? And
did it used to have a <BR>ring of bells? Alas the York page has gone the same
way as the name <BR>Gropecunt.<BR><BR>DrL<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></BODY></HTML>