Canon bashing Edwardians

[Peter Whisker]

The canons were removed from 7 of the 8 bells in Chertsey in 1905, including
the 1380 Abbey bell. The townspeople were so upset that the Vicar resigned
"due to ill health" a few months later.

The one remaining bell with canons now has a canon-retaining headstock to
allow the 1/8 turn.

Peter W


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bryant" <david at b...>
To: <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Soundwaves cracking the tower


> > However this did not stop one West Country architect who in the 1980's
> objected to sound-proofing being put into a tower on the grounds that with
> nowhere to escape the sound would damage the tower!
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> A number of architects seem to have little idea when it comes to bells. In
> 1924, when it was proposed to recast the York Minster bells, the then
> Minster architect, the eminent Walter Tapper, objected to the removal of
the
> gudgeons on the grounds that it would spoil the appearance of the bells.
We
> can only assume he meant canons, and actually these had been removed from
> the old bells during the Warner restoration of 1913, which he had had a
> large part in specifying!
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> David
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