Grassendale

[D Cawley]

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 GRASSENDALE (St Mary) Liverpool

This is currently listed as a 'lost' tower, and having read John Fidler's i=
nspection notes of 1956, I wonder if it still is, despite Dove saying in 19=
62 (Foreign Bells), that the bells were "rehung dead about thirty years ago=
". In 1956, JPF said that "The general condition of the bells and framework=
is the same as when I last visited this place...since my visit an electric=
driven chime barrel has been fixed by G&J, the old clappers have been repl=
aced by newer ones" and goes on to describe the way the barrel works.

He "last visited" in 1933 when he found the ring of six bells by Hodges of =
Dublin, 1853, tenor 37.5/8" diam with "dirty, clumsy" fittings,"no doubt st=
ill serviceable if the frame were good". It is not good. Front four above=
fifth & tenor, rather a poor design and not in a good state.

This implies that in 1956 they would better have been described as Unringab=
le., and might still be so described to-day.

Anyone been up to possibly the only surviving Irish ring in the UK outside =
Ireland ?

DLC
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