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Being at home for however long this takes, I have been randomly trawling the internet and have come across a history of St Marthew's bells in Auckland, NZ.</div>
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<a href="https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells">https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells</a><br>
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This states:</div>
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"<span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 14px;">The eight bells were cast by John Warner & Sons Ltd at Spitalfields, London in 1862. They were cast for the 1862 International Exhibition, London.</span>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; background: 0px 0px; font-size: 14px">Funding for the bells was the work of Mrs Selwyn aided by Lady Lucy Herbert and her friends.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; background: 0px 0px; font-size: 14px">They arrived in Auckland in 1863, aboard the good ship "Nimroud", and hung for many years in a wooden tower at Bishopcourt, Parnell. No. 4 bell was returned to London and recast by
Warners in 1883.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; background: 0px 0px; font-size: 14px">In 1906, the bells, in their original oak frame, were re-installed in the tower of St Matthew-in-the-City. "</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; background: 0px 0px; font-size: 14px">Does this make them a transferred ring? They are not in the lists as such.</span></p>
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