[Bell Historians] Kilmersdon, Somerset

[Philip Denton]

I liked the inscription on the 3rd - by Thomas Bilbie I, 1733. According to the tower notice, it includes the following:
   
  YOU RUDDLE & COCKEY COME HITHER AND SEE
  WHICH IS THE BEST WORKMAN OF ALL US THREE
   
  The 2nd is by William Cockey, 1727; the 5th by Abraham Rudhall I, 1705!
   
  I'm sure there are similarly provocative inscriptions elsewhere.
   
  PD

Susan & Christopher Dalton <dalton.family at gS2i3AbAr3yN3VrooQxdPctaVHbLAVHZIeshuwV_kaS3l1UTgLQPmqIvFB1Y_suhsaw70IY1xgOBUQU5JZnZSge1OA.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
          

>From: "Andrew Higson" <andrew-higson at xKRmZzXEg1V_7SENh4M9whQM8TxCJ8VzgEonLqq_YsayoK2wjV_hzPiUXJ6OmnE4uIj7SPIPoUirKNMUTs_l0vDbwdAsaBX4.yahoo.invalid>
>To: <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Kilmersdon, Somerset
>Date: Fri, May 11, 2007, 9:05 am
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> I've added the JT info to the Dove entry - Fidler gives the date of the 5th
> as 1703. I've also put in my estimates of the weights.
>
> The bells didn't come to the foundry - they are on L&J timber fittings

Yes. Similar sort of situation to Chiseldon, Wilts.

> and
> it wasn't deemed necessary to bring them into the works.
>
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> [mailto:bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pickford
> Sent: 11 May 2007 08:20
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Kilmersdon, Somerset
>
>
>
> Have very little on Kilmersdon, except that:
>
> * Yes - the fifth is by Abraham Rudhall I, 1705. It's first mentioned in
> the 1715 Rudhall catalogue

I too recorded the date on the 5th as 1705.

> * Taylors rehung the bells in a new cast iron frame on Iroko beams in 1955
> - presumably the bells themselves were not taken away from the church

Correct.

> * I don't have any record of diameters

Nor have I: 2001 visit was somewhat hurried. George Massey will have them
I am sure.


         

 		
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