Temple Church, Bristol and Holy Trinity, Blackburn

[fartwell2000]

--- In bellhistorians at y..., "David Bryant" <djb122 at y...> wrote:
> Does anyone have details of what remains on the towers of the 
redundant
> churches of Holy Trinity, Blackburn, and the Temple church, 
Bristol? The
> rings of 8 have been transferred from both, and I wondered what in 
the way
> of framework remained in the tower - I believe that the Bristol 
tower, at
> least, still has its frame - what type is it? I've looked around 
the ruins
> of the church on several occasions, but the tower has always been 
securely
> locked, and on the one occasion I wrote to English Heritage (who 
own it), I
> received no reply.
> 
> David

I was led to believe that a composite frame was installed at Holy 
Trinity and it was left in place when the bells were transferred to 
S.Silas,Blackburn(the single bell and cast iron framesides from 
S.Silas were scrapped about the same time as the Taylor eight(ex Holy 
Trinity) were installed there-they were hung at S.Silas in 1984 and 
are in a ten bell frame).
I shall probably be seeing a few of the people involved with the 
removal of the Holy Trinity bells at the next Branch meeting(4th May)
and will endevour to confirm that the frame is still there.
Alan