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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>“</span></font>My first home tower ,
Sonning , has 4 Ellis Knight tenors dated <br>
1640/41<br>
and under the LIST column of the register "yes" is entered against<br>
each bell . I presume that this is a preservation order . Isnt it the <br>
case though that any bells of this age have to be preserved intact ?<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Bit late responding to this one, but it’s
anything pre-1600 which is automatically listed. In practice anything cast
before 1700 is unlikely to be scrapped but it does happen occasionally – the
1630 9<sup>th</sup> of the old 12 at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kettering</st1:place></st1:City>
was scrapped in 2004. Unlike, for example, listed buildings, there are no legal
implications where listed bells are concerned and the lists are merely
advisory.</span></font><br>
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<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>“</span></font>If this is not
so , are Sonning any more worthy of preservaton than<br>
Ellis's heavier tenors at Reading SMV , Oxford SMV and Bray , also 3<br>
of the 10 at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Magdalen</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> .<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>The lists to some extent can be a bit
arbitrary due to being put together over several decades and with input from a
number of people. I would guess that the four at Sonning are listed because
they are a set of four (presumably the tenor was replaced the year after
originally cast due to a fault). If bells form sets like this, they will often
be listed in preference to odd bells by the same founder and of a similar date.</span></font><br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>“</span></font>For another
comparison , 5 of the back 6 at Thatcham are listed ( <br>
Ellis's tenor has been recast ) but the back 6 at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hurst</st1:place></st1:City> of mixed<br>
earlier dates are not and Fred Sharpe found 2 maiden bells there .<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>I would guess that the back six at <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hurst</st1:place></st1:City> are not listed
because they are not a contemporary set. That said, there could well be a case
for listing them anyway. It rather depends on other surviving bells by that
founder, and obviously it isn’t desirable to have a large proportion of
bells listed. As it is some counties (I believe Gloucestershire is one) have a
higher proportion of listed bells than is the norm – not because there
are more of interest than in other areas, but because bells have been listed
which might not have been elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>There often seems to be the assumption that
no changes can be made to listed bells, but this is not correct. It is
extremely unlikely that canon removal would be allowed (except possibly if the
canons were badly damaged anyway), but tuning is not out of the question if a
good case can be made for it. After all, it’s better to tune an old bell
so that it can continue to form part of a ring than ‘retire’ it
simply because it’s too sharp.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>David</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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