[Bell Historians] Re: Time Team: Salisbury cathedral Campanile.

[David Cawley]

Certainly the three rings mentioned went down to Cleeve Abbey, being considered the most historically 'at risk' in London. The treble and sanctus at St Bart's the Less did not leave the tower, which is why the back two only now have dead fittings.

As we have said before, it was almost a case of "leave the bells in the tower and get bombed", these three, also St Magnus, Southwark, Redcliffe all being lowered and stowed away, and the churches coming through along with Bart's and Undershaft largely intact. It didn't save St Clement Danes, though; and I am told that the survivivng Sanctus bell there (R Mot) was left in the tower and actually passed through the flames. 

I'd love to see a scan of the photograph of the Bart's bells at Cleeve Abbey.

DLC

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RJ Johnston, Geographical Sciences 
  To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:37 PM
  Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Re: Time Team: Salisbury cathedral Campanile.




  Not sure I know more than any of you. The programme certainly didn't 
  mention that some of the stones had gone to Alderbury

  ON ANOTHER ISSUE - A QUERY

  I have a colleague who is writing a book on the Quantocks and he has 
  unearthed that among many of the fittings and furniture from London 
  churches 'evacuated' during WWII, the bells of St Bartholomew the Great, St 
  Bartholomew the Less, and St Andrew Undershaft were stored in the cloisters 
  of Cleeve Abbey - for which he has a picture.

  he asked if the bells of other churches were similarly evacuated to safe 
  havens in the countryside - and I had to express total ignorance! Does 
  anybody know more?

  RON

  --On 12 February 2009 16:33 +0000 Anne Willis <zen16073 at lAeXMFr--IumDDSB77sJO--Ufy80WvUl4NL4nBpHDQRvw2SI0S6AufjfjK6IbPwgObnxlJjCQwk.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

  >
  >
  >
  >
  > Ron Johnston has been collecting material on the Salisbury campanile for a
  > long time. I have sent him some information (or sources of information)
  > but
  > have not kept copies of most of it.
  >
  > Not having a TV I didn't see the programme. Did anyone mention that stones
  > from the campanile were used to build Alderbury house?
  >
  > Below is the faculty to dispose of the remaining bells which were bought
  > by
  > Wells of Aldbourne.
  >
  > Anne
  >
  > WSRO D1/61/1C P.215 1777 [not checked]
  >
  > John by divine Permission Bishop of Sarum to our beloved in Christ the
  > Venerable Dean and Chapter of our Cathedral Church of Sarum Greeting.
  > Whereas you have by your petition under your common seal bearing Date the
  > eleventh day of January last represented unto us that five of the Bells
  > which hung in the Belfry and belonging to our said Cathedral Church and
  > were
  > taken down some years since when the spire of the said Belfry was removed
  > and the top thereof lowered and now covered in and have ever since
  > remained
  > and must remain useless that you have lately been at considerable expense
  > in
  > cleaning and beautifying the inside of the said Church and propose (having
  > had an encouraging offer of assistance to make further improvement
  > therein)
  > that it would greatly contribute to such proposed improvement or any
  > further
  > improvement or Repairs of the said church if the said useless bells were
  > to be sold and disposed of and the Profits therefrom arising were thereto
  > appropriated to such proposed Improvements or any further Improvements or
  > repairs of the said Church we therefore taking the premises into
  > consideration and being fully satisfied of the truth of the allegations
  > aforesaid and favourably inclined to grant so reasonable a request Do
  > hereby
  > give and grant to you (as far as by law we are authorised) our
  > Licence and Faculty to sell and dispose of the said five useless bells and
  > to apply the Profits arising therefrom towards the proposed Improvements
  > or
  > any future Improvements or repairs of the said Church In Witness thereof
  > we
  > have caused our Episcopal Seal to be hereunto affixed Dated at our House
  > in
  > London the Tenth day of February in the yeare of our Lord seventeen
  > seventy
  > seven and in the eleventh year of our Translation
  > [signed] John Sarum
  >
  > WSRO 1966/47
  > NB [at end] that Alderbury house was built of the stones from the
  > destroyed campanile of Salisbury Cathedral.
  >
  > J[ohn]. Waylen 'The real spoliators of Salisbury Cathedral were Bishop
  > Barrington and his advisers. . . the lost belfry will ever be a subject of
  > lamentation'.
  >
  >
  > 

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  University of Bristol
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