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<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica;">Richard says: </span>
<div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica;">>In the case of Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon, the 7th is </span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica;">>listed because it is the heaviest extant bell produced by a </span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica;">>17th century founder, per the published criteria. </span>
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<div style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica">Great Bedwyn tenor (which is already listed) is larger and heavier than Bradford 7th.</font></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica">As for Preshute - it says a complete ring - which they are not. The treble was added later. Christ Church Bradford on Avon are a few years older, and a complete eight. Why aren't they listed?</font></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica">Several of the bells at Durnford have been listed, but the Wallis tenor - a truly wonderful example of 17th Century bellfounding, has not.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica"><font size="2">My fear is that things are getting even more </font>inconsistent (I have aired my views about this already)<font size="2">, and a little out of hand.</font></font></div>
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