[Bell Historians] Radford Semele

[Bickerton, Roderic (SELEX GALILEO, UK)]

the pictures of the fire show the intensity or the fire in the top of
the tower, presumably the old frame and roof going.
It may well be that the old frame has been a contributory factor in the
loss of the bells as it dropped burning debris through the installation.
It adds to the amount of possible fire damage to have a tone or more of
disused timber in  bell tower.

We should keep the pictures and use them every time it is proposed to
keep a disused bell frame in a tower.


The loss (which now seems pretty certain) includes:
a) A mediaeval bell of c.1350 relocated from Atherstone on Stour when
Radford bells were restored in 1998
b) An important early C17th frame hoisted above the ring (and suspended
on hawsers below the roof) - significant because the older part (for
three bells) was dated, and a fourth (transverse) pit had been added
later. It was quite an early dated frame of c.1615, probably extended in
1636.
c) Three quite good early C17th bells - two by Watts 1636 and a Bagley
of 1641
d) A recently restored and fully ringable six
 


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