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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Having spent five years of my school life as a
boarder at St.Michael's Tenbury (from the age of eight to thirteen), I'm quite
sure that my tastes and interests in architecture, music and churchmanship all
owe quite a lot to Ouseley! St.Michael's has been described as a Tractarian
dream, and its school buildings and church (Henry Woodyer 1854-6) remain largely
intact - although the school closed some 20 years ago. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Ouseley was indeed caught up in anti-ritualist
riots in Pimlico. There's more about it in David Bland's book "Ouseley and his
Angels: The Life of St.Michael's College, Tenbury, and its Founder" (2000) - a
good read for anyone interested in the subject</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Sadly, St.Michael's never had bells - just two
early Warner tinklers (1855 and 1856) in openings in the west front. They were
rehung by Bill Berry in 2008, one to swing chime and the other to sound with a
trigger-action clapper. There's a horrendous ladder for anyone who really wants
to see the bells close to - I don't recommend it! Later in the C19th the Arts
& Crafts architect C.E. Mallows published designs for a separate bell tower,
but it was never built. Later still, in 1923, </FONT><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">an old boy gave two bells (G&J 1900 - 8 and 12 cwt)
that had been cast for Pietermaritzburg Cathedral in South Africa, but never
sent - probably because of the Boer War. They were sold to Taylors for scrap,
and the proceeds used to pay for two oak screens around the organ.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Changing period completely, list members may
like to be aware of a new book just out - Terry Friedman's monumental study of
<EM>The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain</EM> (Yale, 2011). It's 790 pages -
packed with quality illustrations (739 in all) - plus a further 600 pages
of information on a CD-ROM. It features all major churches of the period all
over Britain, including many of the London towers with rings, and a huge amount
of source material (especially on the CD) not previously published. A really
superb book - not cheap (£60), but a mine of information and
interest</FONT></DIV>
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