[Bell Historians] Anti Clockwise hanging

[Roderic Bickerton]

Thinking about that one, if you turn any frame layout upside down the circle
changes from clockwise to anticlockwise.

Conclusion: its nothing to do with layout verses stresses.

If the tower there is a choice of 4 orientations for each layout to chose
from to put the highest stress on the strongest wall.

Often the weakest features are the spiral stairway corner and the nave arch.
So its usual to avoid swinging the biggest bells across the nave arch or
have them sharing the corner containing the spiral.




 

Seriously though, it was generally to do with frame configurations that
exerted minimum forces on the tower walls.   Some of the early frame
designs, particularly eight-bell frames with pairs of pits at right-angles
to each other, generally lead to an anti-clockwise circle.

 

Richard