[Bell Historians] From Essex to New Hampshire.

[Peter Rivet]

These structures may be related very loosely to the "klokkenstoelen" (literally bell chairs) found in Friesland, in the NE of the Netherlands.  This may seem a bit far fetched but Fries is the closest language to English.  Until the late middle ages the two were close enough to be mutually understandable, in much the same way as Scots and Irish Gaelic.  

See http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klokkenstoelen_in_Friesland for details - it's in Dutch but there's a set of photos at the end.

Peter Rivet

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        There is another one at Wix, also in Essex and close to Wrabness. I haven't seen it recently - I gather it is a modern (1975) rebuilding of the original C17 structure.

        Philip

        --- On Wed, 9/7/08, Ted Steele <ted.steele at xUxevFzUa62coxCXADn-OPukOQtuL9xC5AqEJ2ZzIGRJJ2r2JZGtoTToED6bhL7xwxzWVeAoN3uxmg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

          From: Ted Steele <ted.steele at xUxevFzUa62coxCXADn-OPukOQtuL9xC5AqEJ2ZzIGRJJ2r2JZGtoTToED6bhL7xwxzWVeAoN3uxmg.yahoo.invalid>
          Subject: [Bell Historians] From Essex to New Hampshire.
          To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
          Date: Wednesday, 9 July, 2008, 9:33 PM


          I was browsing on the photographic website, "flickr" and came across 
          these pictures which may be of interest. I expect the bells to be well 
          known amongst historians but I was surprised to find that East Bergholt 
          is not the only church with a wooden bell cage in the churchyard. 
          Admittedly the one at Wrabness, Essex contains only one bell but it 
          makes me wonder whether there may be still further examples of such 
          cages. Does anyone on the list know? There is a link to a picture of the 
          East Bergholt cage for comparison which shows clearly that the cages 
          have rather little in common and are of very different ages. However 
          there is only about ten miles between the two villages. Is there perhaps 
          a local tradition of such cages?

          The bell in Keene, NH seems to have hung for some years in the Baptist 
          church but it is unclear whether it is still in use somewhere else now. 
          It was the reference to its being cast by Paul revere of Boston that 
          drew me to this, as he has been mentioned recently on the list.

          <http://www.flickr. com/photos/ keenepubliclibra ry/2590389228/>
          <http://www.flickr. com/photos/ hornbeam/ 1424108950/>
          <http://www.flickr. com/photos/ hornbeam/ 1424117972/ in/photostream/>
          <http://www.flickr. com/photos/ dws/7506769/>

          Browsing for "bells, churches" brings up a huge number of pictures of 
          which I have checked just a few pages.

          Ted


       




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