Chester Cathedral

[jimhedgcock]

--- Arthur Whiting in his booklet 'The Bells of Chester Cathedral' 
states:-
'In February 1969, nine of the ten bells were removed from the 
central tower to the bell foundry of John Taylor & Co., at 
Loughborough to be recast as a ring of twelve with a flat sixth.------
-In the central tower were left Henry Oldfield's bell of 1606 (No. 8 
in the ring of ten bells) and William Clibury's Prayer Bell of 1626. 
The details of Oldfield's bell are given as:-
H+O NOS SVMS CONSTRVCTE
AD LAWDEM DOMINI
On soundbow + DECANUS ET CAPITVLVM CESTREI
ME FECERVNT ANNO 1606

Diameter 47 inches.


In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, David Bryant <david at b...> wrote:
> > The bells (8 of them) were taken out of the central tower in 1969.
> 
> Nine of them, surely? As I understand it, only the 8th was left and 
this now hangs dead in the old frame (or is it still on the ringing 
headstock with wheel, etc, removed?)
> 
> David
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