[Bell Historians] Last Towers in Dove

[Mike Chester]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Alan Ellis <alan_ellis at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Hello Mike,
> 
> If the details contained in the Church Bells of Suffolk, 1890, are 
still 
> applicable, they are as follows:
> 
> Hunston, St. Michael.
> 3 bells
> 1. Pack & Chapman of London fecit. John Rust C. W.
> 2. J. D. made me 1614
> 3. Johannes Drivervs me fecit 1617
> "Great bells iij."   Return of 1553.   Davy, 6 July 1843, "three 
bells".

They are a ringable 5 and therefore this data will need to be checked 
to see if any were recast during the augmentation scheme.

> 
> Lawshall, All Saints
> 6 bells
> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1735
> 6. T. Mears of London fecit 1828.
> Davy, Aug. 16, 1831, "contains 5 bells, which I did not visit."
> "Great bells iiij.   Sancts bells j."  Return in 1553.
> 
> (References CBS by J. J. Raven pp 205, 214).

Very interesting! They are, apparently, a ring of 5 with only 4 now 
ringable, the tenor being out of action - could the Mears bell be a 
sanctus or a recast of an existing bell?

Please make contact locally before travelling to these church to see 
if anything is visible as to the bells!

Mike