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<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The tower contains a
ring of 3 bells, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>1 Blank with a
ground out sound bow crack to half way up waist 28 3/4"
diameter.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>the opened crack
shows the bell to be a thin casting.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 T Mears London
1813, 31 1/8" Good</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>3 Blank, 31 1/8"
Casting style as 1 but a differing sound bow profile. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>1&3 are rather
small in the crown and waist but not long.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>All are hung from
traditional cannons.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>They are in a rather
fine KP short head frame.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>All ironwork is
early, probably pre 1815 as the work is coarse thread bolted with large square
nuts</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008></SPAN><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>! would guess
the headstocks of 1&2 are the same age as the 2nd and that there was some
attention to foundation beams and all the cross bracing was renewed or
fitted. The frame sides are original.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>All bells have plate
gudgeons, the ones on 1 and 2 having been roughly fitted on headstocks made for
strap gudgeons.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>the tenor headstock
is later and made for the plate gudgeons. The pulleys are also fairly
modern.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>there is a
comparatively modern additional EW foundation beam </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>this work is
probably late C19.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>t<SPAN class=107144107-30052008>here are no
wheels or sliders, but the slider pins and trays remain. only 2 has a
stay.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The church is not on
the NBR and George says the bells were stolen.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have taken many
pictures and recorded the sound of the bells</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=107144107-30052008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I also looked at
Potsgrove which are as catalogued, the 3 are on 3 levels hung dead in
a Victorian turret. This is a CCC church.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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