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<div><br><br>Sent from Richard Offen's iPad</div><div><br>On 27 Jan 2017, at 11:49 am, Richard Smith <a href="mailto:richard@ex-parrot.com">richard@ex-parrot.com</a> [bellhistorians] <<a href="mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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'Chris Pickford' <a href="mailto:c.j.pickford.t21@btinternet.com">c.j.pickford.t21@btinternet.com</a> [bellhistorians] wrote:<br>
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> I'm pleased to say that I now have details of the old tenor at Cirencester.<br>
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Many thanks for that Chris. I think we can safely say <br>
Cirencester was lighter than GSM, which were probably a <br>
little over 28 cwt as supplied and reduced to 27-0-10 (or <br>
27-0-13) when it was tuned in the 1950s and the canons <br>
removed.<br>
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> The other "light twelve" for Richard to consider is <br>
> St.Bride's Fleet Street - for which no exact weight is <br>
> available, as far as I know. The Rudhall list shows it as <br>
> 28 cwt.<br>
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I think we can conclude they were heavier than Cirencester. <br>
Whether they were heaver than GSM is a moot point as <br>
Cirencester pre-date GSM as a twelve, and probably never <br>
knowable as GSM and St Brides were so close in weight.<br>
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Anyway, I now have a list of the lightest ring of twelve in <br>
any given year:<br>
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1681-1719 55 York<br>
1719-1722 28 St Brides<br>
1722-1819 25 Cirencester<br>
1819-1932 15 Quex Park<br>
1932-1974 12 Surfleet<br>
1974-1990 11 Accrington<br>
1990-2008 8 Grundisburgh<br>
2008-2012 8 Bitterne Park<br>
2012- 6 Loughborough Foundry<br>
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Perhaps of less interest is a corresponding list of the <br>
heaviest twelve:<br>
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1681-1765 55 York<br>
1765-1878 51 Southwark<br>
1878-1922 62 St Pauls<br>
1922-1939 72 Exeter<br>
1939- 82 Liverpool<br>
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RAS<br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Why is Quex Park shown as 1819-1932? The bells remained as installed until 1951, when the four trebles were recast and the tenor remained the same weight until the canons were cut off in 1982.<div><br></div><div>R<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><p>
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