<div dir="auto">If I remember there are 2 groups of bells on display, and the 3 ringing bells in the chapple spire.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 19 May 2022, 17:45 Richard Smith, <<a href="mailto:richard@ex-parrot.com">richard@ex-parrot.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Wikipedia has a number of photos of what it describes as <br>
'three 17th century Russian Orthodox church bells' on <br>
display at Arundel Castle, which were allegedly taken from <br>
Sevastopol in 1856.<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_bell_ringing#Gallery" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_bell_ringing#Gallery</a><br>
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Does anyone know anything about these bells? I can't see <br>
anything in Elphick's Sussex, though he mentions a single <br>
1656 call cast by M Kordt, and which is the heaviest of <br>
three other bells listed in Dove. Dove states M Cordt is <br>
from Lübeck, though I cannot find any other information on <br>
this founder. Are these three bells the ones allegedly <br>
taken from Sevastopol? Are there another three bells there? <br>
Or is the Crimea story apocryphal?<br>
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