Reading the national bell register

[Mike Chester]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "dcwillispiano" 
<dcwillispiano at ...> wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the oxford guild part of this into a spreadsheet
> and as others have said , it is all a splendid piece of work .

Agreed!

> 
> My first home tower , Sonning , has 4 Ellis Knight tenors dated 
> 1640/41
> and under the LIST column of the register "yes" is entered against
> each bell . I presume that this is a preservation order . 

It means that the bells are listed and there are certain assumptions 
against tuning, recasting, etc - others will no doubt fill in the 
details.

I notice that canon status for the front bells, frequencies and 
diameters are not in the pNBR - can you not supply them to JCB?

Mike