<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style>Certainly a new one on me !<div><p><br></p><p>I can imagine that there will be a number of eager visitors to this <span style="font-style: italic;">zvon </span>when the present difficulties are over.</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks for notifying us of these Bells.</p><p><br></p>DLC<br><blockquote style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "Mike Chester" <mikechester@hotmail.com><br>To: "bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br>Sent: Saturday, 9 May, 2020 At 10:57<br>Subject: [Bell Historians] Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and the Royal Martyrs, Gunnersbury<br><br> <div style="font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 12.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);"> David Sloman has alerted me to this chime of 9 bells.  They must be Russian in origin, looking at them. Does anyone have any further details of them, please?</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 12.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 12.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <a href="https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2017/12/13/cathedral-of-the-dormition-of-the-mother-of-god-and-the-royal-martyrs-harvard-road-gunnersbury-russian-orthodox-church-abroad/#jp-carousel-20614" id="LPlnk807703" target="_blank">https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2017/12/13/cathedral-of-the-dormition-of-the-mother-of-god-and-the-royal-martyrs-harvard-road-gunnersbury-russian-orthodox-church-abroad/#jp-carousel-20614</a><br> </div> <div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9sb25kb25jaHVyY2hidWlsZGluZ3MuY29tLzIwMTcvMTIvMTMvY2F0aGVkcmFsLW9mLXRoZS1kb3JtaXRpb24tb2YtdGhlLW1vdGhlci1vZi1nb2QtYW5kLXRoZS1yb3lhbC1tYXJ0eXJzLWhhcnZhcmQtcm9hZC1ndW5uZXJzYnVyeS1ydXNzaWFuLW9ydGhvZG94LWNodXJjaC1hYnJvYWQvI2pwLWNhcm91c2VsLTIwNjE0" class="LPBorder277404" style="width: 100.0%;margin-top: 16.0px;margin-bottom: 16.0px;max-width: 800.0px;min-width: 424.0px;"> <table id="LPContainer277404" style="padding: 12.0px 36.0px 12.0px 12.0px;width: 100.0%;border-width: 1.0px;border-style: solid;border-color: rgb(200,200,200);"><tbody><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0.0px;"><td> <div id="LPImageContainer277404" style="margin-right: 12.0px;height: 160.0px;overflow: hidden;width: 240.0px;"> <a target="_blank" id="LPImageAnchor277404" href="https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2017/12/13/cathedral-of-the-dormition-of-the-mother-of-god-and-the-royal-martyrs-harvard-road-gunnersbury-russian-orthodox-church-abroad/#jp-carousel-20614"><img alt="" src="https://londonchurchbuildings.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/chiswick_catheral_of_dominition_russian_orthodox121217_12.jpg" width="106" height="160" style="display: block;" id="LPThumbnailImageId277404" class=""></a></div> </td><td style="width: 100.0%;"> <div id="LPTitle277404" style="font-size: 21.0px;font-weight: 300;margin-right: 8.0px;font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light , "Segoe UI Light" , "Segoe WP Light" , "Segoe UI" , "Segoe WP" , Tahoma , Arial , sans-serif;margin-bottom: 12.0px;"> <a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor277404" href="https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2017/12/13/cathedral-of-the-dormition-of-the-mother-of-god-and-the-royal-martyrs-harvard-road-gunnersbury-russian-orthodox-church-abroad/#jp-carousel-20614" style="text-decoration: none;">Cathedral  of the Dormition of the Mother of God and the Royal Martyrs, Harvard Road, Gunnersbury (Russian Orthodox Church Abroad) « London Churches in photographs</a></div> <div id="LPDescription277404" style="font-size: 14.0px;max-height: 100.0px;color: rgb(102,102,102);font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal , "Segoe UI" , "Segoe WP" , Tahoma , Arial , sans-serif;margin-bottom: 12.0px;margin-right: 8.0px;overflow: hidden;"> Above the railway cutting south of Gunnersbury Station. The cathedral was built in 1999 in the grounds of a house that had previously been used for worship. The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad is a separate body from the state approved Russian Orthodox Church  whose Cathedral is in Kensington. …</div> <div id="LPMetadata277404" style="font-size: 14.0px;font-weight: 400;color: rgb(166,166,166);font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal , "Segoe UI" , "Segoe WP" , Tahoma , Arial , sans-serif;"> londonchurchbuildings.com</div> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 12.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);"> In trying to find details of the bells I came across a newsletter from Cathedral of Dormition of the Mother of God in Knightsbridge.  Start at page 6.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri , Helvetica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