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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St Catherine's: As Alan says, the tower is just not
suitable in plan, elevation or situation to take them as a ring. They were hung
by M&S at St Catherine's when the present church was built in 1937
after thirty years on the floor of St Mary Coslany following the removal of the
(remains of) the upper stage of that tower.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St Andrew's: the ropes fall in the order
1-3-2-7-10-5-4-6-9-8. The first peal of London Major was rung there, bad enough
without the back eight ropes falling 1-5-8-3-2-4-7-6! Otrher such examples
in East Anglia included Beccles and Horham. Both since rehung. Last ringing at
St Andrew's was 1902.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St George Tombland. Rehung in 1975 in the old
frame, for chiming. I was DAC Adviser on Bells for Norwich at the time and also
the NDA's first Technical Adviser. It was quite by chance that the money
became available simply to hang them 'dead' on the old frame. The NDA at
the time had no significant bell fund, and like St Andrew's the tower needed
extensive work.They are a pleasant sounding minor five, probably not rung
in the last 150 years. </FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan: were you the lad who was chiming at Mile
Cross in Stanley Plunkett's time - i.e. when I was curate of
Sprowston?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Norwich,
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<P>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><BR>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><BR>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><BR>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><BR>Hopefully someone can add
to this bit of info, which is possibly out of date..<BR> <BR>Best
wishes<BR><BR>Alan<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Bickerton, Roderic K (SELEX) (UK)
wrote:<BR>
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<P><BR><BR>Does anyone know if there are any plans to restore the bells at
this, <BR>or any other, Norwich tower? <BR><BR>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
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very good on line reference.<BR>The "site has been created by David Bryant
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