<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Further to my earlier post, Holley is happy for me to share her email address and would be delighted to hear from anyone interested in her research.<div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:holley.wakeling@gmail.com">holley.wakeling@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Gareth</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Dec 2025, at 14:15, Gareth Davies <charollais@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Oliver <div><br></div><div>Holley Wakeling completed a university dissertation last year on 'The Medieval Church Bells of the Middle East’. <div><br></div><div>I’m sure she would be happy to share it. Let me know off list if you would like her contact details.</div><div><br></div><div>Gareth Davies</div><div><a href="mailto:charollais@gmail.com">charollais@gmail.com</a></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Dec 2025, at 09:43, Chris Pickford via Bell-historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks for this – fills gap (date, 1898; Christ Church) in my list of tubular bells. I can add that they’re in the key of C, largest 88” long<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);">Chris Pickford</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);">Knighton (Powys), UK<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);">Tel: 07811-453525<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);">e-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:pickford5040@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">pickford5040@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Laurie Alexander via Bell-historians<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>08 December 2025 01:47<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>oliver Lee via Bell-historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Laurie Alexander <laurie2027@hotmail.com>; Carl S Zimmerman <csz_stl@swbell.net><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Bell Historians] english bells in the holy land<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">There is an online video -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://christchurchjerusalem.org/donate/bells/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://christchurchjerusalem.org/donate/bells/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Christ Church in Jerusalem, an Anglican church in the Old City, uniquely houses a set of eight historic <b><u><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Harrington+tubular+bells&sca_esv=8df951587e50b476&sxsrf=AE3TifMXt76CznhSfEAcbEfKupN01JTtPA%3A1765158191901&source=hp&ei=Ly02af7ZL667seMPwcua4QE&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaTY7P0mCphLHeGPl_CU8DRwPq0j74WZ2&ved=2ahUKEwi-iMTZ7qyRAxVXkq8BHdjgG1EQgK4QegQIARAD&uact=5&oq=set+of+8+tubular+bells+in+Christ+Church%2C+Jerusalem&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IjJzZXQgb2YgOCB0dWJ1bGFyIGJlbGxzIGluIENocmlzdCBDaHVyY2gsIEplcnVzYWxlbTIFEAAY7wUyCBAAGIAEGKIEMgUQABjvBTIFEAAY7wUyCBAAGIAEGKIESKYLUABYAHAAeACQAQCYAdEBoAHRAaoBAzItMbgBA8gBAPgBAvgBAZgCAaAC1AGYAwCSBwMyLTGgB_ACsgcDMi0xuAfUAcIHAzAuMcgHAoAIAA&sclient=gws-wiz&safe=active&ssui=on&mstk=AUtExfDhBnK3GDJHiGP2TqjotFfZV_l-99ZOxwlNTjuFU63KwGnYa6JoxQz0nDhNxRDkca0o7W0K6q1QyzsZuoZrElyth5xlcmwX_4_AFB7thzUnABVrU05GXQeBBXNQ0veLuK4QxlwSTku9llN2c9545uRlJ4RxhHHlUMQsM2wa0J_025E&csui=3" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Harrington tubular bells</a></u></b>, installed over a century ago, which ring for services and special occasions but are in need of restoration, serving as a distinctive landmark and musical feature in the Holy Land. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Key Details:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Type:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> An octave of tubular bells (8 bells).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Housed at Christ Church, the Anglican parish in the Old City of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">History:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Installed over 100 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Significance:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> It's the only tubular bell system in the Holy Land.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Function:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Used for Sunday services, weddings, and events.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Status:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> The bells were silenced for decades but are being actively restored through fundraising efforts, notes <u><a href="https://christchurchjerusalem.org/donate/bells/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(26, 13, 171);">Christ Church Jerusalem</span></a></u>. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Learn More & Support:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">You can find details and ways to support the restoration on the official Christ Church Jerusalem website.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; list-style-position: initial;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Articles from Anglican Compass and <u><a href="https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5f3e97addb8f1/content/pages/documents/christ-church-annual-report-2024.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(26, 13, 171);">Christ Church Annual Reports</span></a></u> provide more context. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><hr size="2" width="98%" align="center"></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bell-historians <<a href="mailto:bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>> on behalf of Carl S Zimmerman via Bell-historians <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, 8 December 2025 12:33 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>oliver Lee via Bell-historians <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Carl S Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:csz_stl@swbell.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">csz_stl@swbell.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Bell Historians] english bells in the holy land</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gillett & Johnston installed a 35-bell carillon in the tower of the YMCA in Jerusalem in 1930. Eijsbouts added a bass bell during an overhaul in 2018. It is played regularly.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harrington installed a set of 8 tubular bells in Christ Church, Jerusalem (date unknown), and a recent photo of the building suggests that they may still be there.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br> - 19th c. home of at least 37 bell founders or resellers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Tel. +1-314-821-8437<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Webmaster for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.towerbells.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">www.TowerBells.org</a><br> * Avocation: tower bells<br> * Recreation: handbells<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> * Mission: church bells<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span class="xydp73140da6pasted-link"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Webmaster for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tscchapter134.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">www.TSCChapter134.org</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Treasurer, World Carillon Federation<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div><div id="x_yahoo_quoted_5366554472"><div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">On Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 06:10:26 PM CST, oliver Lee via Bell-historians <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><div id="x_yiv5359679909"><div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Little bit of a strange question but are there any english bells in the Holy land (i.e jerusalem and bethlehem?), I know that st george's cathedral in jerusalem has an appropriately large tower for a ring of bells but I haven't come across any documentation that explicitly mentions what there is up there which makes me wonder if it's one of those cases where the tower was provided but the bells where never installed thanks to monetary constraints!. It does surprise me that the holy land has never had any ringable towers but seeing that German missionaries where very popular in that part of the world during the late 19<sup>th</sup> century I think this might explain why places like the church of the the holy sepulchre have bells hung for swing chiming, nevertheless it's something that's always interested me hence my query<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Regards <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Oliver lee<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">_______________________________________________<br>Bell-historians mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Bell-historians mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>