[Bell Historians] St Mary, Hornsey.

[CHRIS PICKFORD]

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Can offer this from my "London within M25" file:

Walters "Middlesex" pt.4 p.58 (refers to article on "The Hornsey Bells" by =
Draper in Transactions NS X.II (1949-50) p.120-2)

1. Thomas Janaway, 1775 29=BE"

2. Thomas Janaway, 1775 31=BD"

3. Thomas Janaway, 1775 33=BD"

4. Thomas Janaway, 1775 36=BC"

5. Thomas Janaway, 1775 39=BE"

6. Warner, 1880 45=BD"

On bell frame: "John Booth 1775". Fittings by Warner.

Three bells in 1552

Brief article (with illustration) on "Hornsey Ringers' Jug" in Transactions=
of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Vol.11 (1954) p.39

Article (on St.George in the East, London) in Ringing World 30 October 1981=
p.959. Ring of six bells by Thomas Janaway, 1775. Tenor recast in 1875 by =
Warner. Church made redundant in 1956 and the bells used as scrap metal tow=
ards a new ring of eight cast in 1964-6 for St.George in the East. Details =
of the Hornsey bells were as follows:

1. Thomas Janaway, 1775 30" 5=
-2-12

2. Thomas Janaway, 1775 31=BD" =
5-2-17

3. Thomas Janaway, 1775 35=BD" =
6-3-16

4. Thomas Janaway, 1775 36=BD" =
8-2-16

5. Thomas Janaway, 1775 40" 1=
0-1-6

6. Warner, 1875 [actually 1880] 44=BD" =
15-2-11

London inventory p.50 (DLC 1965) - tower only, with frame but no bell

Felstead peal records: Four peals rung at Hornsey, the last in 1953

Note on the future of the tower and bells in Ringing World 29 July 1960 p.5=
13 - plans to restore the tower, but a decision had been taken to no longer=
use the tower for bellringing



CP

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