Faculties

[Andrew Aspland]

Tricky one for you:

If an individual has bought a second hand bell, to augment an existing ring,
and the same individual is paying for its tuning and hanging, and the bell
is to be placed in an existing empty pit, could the work to the bell and its
fittings be carried out without a faculty? I assume that faculties are
required for bells to be removed from or placed in a tower and that the said
faculty only becomes strictly necessary when the bell is actually hung.

Clearly there is a risk in that the individual pays for the work and then a
faculty is not forthcoming - I believe one of the semitones in a Yorkshire
twelve caused such problems.

Your thoughts please.

Andrew