Charles Church Plymouth / War Losses

[CHRIS PICKFORD]

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What is rather sad about Charles Church - along with quite a number of othe=
r rings lost in the War - is that they had been restored only a few years p=
rior to the commencement of hostilities. Charles Church were rehung in the =
autumn of 1936 by Gillett & Johnston, who also recast the eighth. The bells=
were:
1. Mears & Stainbank 1898 28 3/16" 5-1-25
2. Mears & Stainbank 1898 29 3/4" 5-3-20
3. C & G Mears 1856 31 3/8" 6-1-19
4. Chapman & Mears 1782 32 1/2" 6-3-17
5. Chapman & Mears 1782 33 7/8" 7-1-10
6. Chapman & Mears 1782 37" 8-3-26
7. Chapman & Mears 1782 40 1/8" 10-2-21
8. Gillett & Johnston 1936 43 1/2" 15-3-17
9. C & G Mears 1856 46" 15-0-12
10. C & G Mears 1856 51 7/8" 23-0-6 in D

Holy Rood, Southampton, is another wartime loss where the bells were restor=
ed in 1936 - by Taylors.

In terms of bells being used for munitions, one instance is Abberley Hall. =
Fifteen of the bells were sold back to Taylors in late 1939, leaving only t=
he smallest five that would give a Westminster quarter chime. The metal fro=
m these bells was used to make munitions when Taylors turned over to wartim=
e production.

CP
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