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St. Catherine's Mile Cross has the original six bells from St. Mary at
Coslany. They are hung dead and are chimed - using an Ellacombe
system. They were moved in the late 1930s early 1940s due to the
unsafe tower at St. Mary Coslany. <br>
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These bells will never be hung for ringing at St. Catherine's as it is
a 1936 brick church with the tower over the chancel crossing I used
to chime them when I was a choir boy there numerous years ago. :-)<br>
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St. Andrew's church has a ten hung five, with three above and two above
them. The rope order is peculiar although I can never remember it.
They were last rung around 1900. The tower is reported to be unsafe
as are the three frames! I guess that it would be possible to rehang
the bells and repair the tower at some significant cost.<br>
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I understand that the five at St. George Tombland are capable of being
rehung at a reasonable cost, although when they were last rung is
unknown to me. Probably 19th century.<br>
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Hopefully someone can add to this bit of info, which is possibly out of
date..<br>
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Best wishes<br>
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Alan<br>
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Does anyone know if there are any plans to restore the bells at this, <br>
or any other, Norwich tower? <br>
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There have been a couple of letters about St Andrews, and there are<br>
chimes at St Catharine, mile cross and S George toomland. I certainly<br>
have not heard of anything getting as far as an estimated proposal.<br>
Look at <a href="http://www.bellhistorians.org.uk/norwich/">http://www.bellhist<wbr>orians.org.<wbr>uk/norwich/</a><br>
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