[Bell Historians] ALL SAINTS Boughton Aluph, Kent

[David Cawley]

All Saints, Boughton Aluph.

1. The bells were sold by the authority of a Faculty. I have a copy of it.

2. The bells of Eastwell Church werre likewise sold by the authority of a Faculty.  I have a copy of it.

3. The bells at each were taken out in two successive weeks in 1952. The iron frame at Eastwell was also taken out. The 3-bell section of the Boughton Aluph frame was left and remains in situ. See the relevant towers on kent.lovesguide.com 

4. The words GABRIELIS and one canon from the Boughton Aluph tenor were purchased by RWMC and now repose in the Canterbury Heritage Museum (the old Pooor Priest's Hospital in Stour Street). Also there are the William le Belyetere c1325 tenor of 3 ex Kingston (which Richard will remember, with me, as being one of the most arch-derelict threes ever) and the c1500 old tenor from the old St Mary Bredin, Canterbury (see my RW article on the lost ring of Canterbury in the RW a few years ago, also in the 'articles' section of lovesguide).

5. Some of the metal from the tenor was indeed used by G&J to cast the little coronation bells, but the majorioty of it was - with the other four and the Eastwell metal, used for the Aberdeen carillon. I have documentary evidence for this.

As I said in my Christmas article this year "Hell Fire Corner", there is to be a sequel, "Bomb Alley", which will deal with the bells of Eastwell, Boughton Aluph and Challock which were neighbouring casualties of the aftermath of war rather than the conflict itself. I now have much more primary source material than was available to me in my 1982 article. 

DLC
 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Offen 
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  I suspect that is only hearsay!



  R




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  And of course wasn’t metal from there used to cast all those little G&J. Coronation bells?



  George



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  Yes, despite all efforts to save them, they ended up in pieces in the metal store of G & J.   

  Wasn’t one of the tenor’s canons and part of its inscription saved by Ranald Clouston?

  David

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