[Bell Historians] Greenock

[Susan Dalton]

>From: "Chris Pickford" <c.j.pickford at t...>

> Clouston's Church Bells of Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire (p.157) gives
> details of this bell which is at West Kirk, Greenock. It is inscribed:
>
> (mark) FOR : THE : CHURCH (mark) OF (mark) GRINOCK : 1677 (mark)
R (three bells) P
>
> It is 17.75" in diameter. Clouston says "The treble is cast with canons and
> is hung dead from a beam in the louvre windows. The bell [footnote:
> referred to in Smith's History of Greenock p.364] was probably cast by
> Roger Purdue of Bristol, who was founding from 1644 to 1688.
>
[Pace the late RWMC, I don't think it is at all likely that this bell was
cast by Roger Purdue (the second) of Bristol: I am not aware that he ever
used a 3-bell mark, and there were a lot of other founders about at that
time who had the initials RP. But I haven't seen the bell and (shame on me)
don't have the book.]

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