Bar chimes

[Mike]

I belive that they are solid "bars" of metal - though I stand to be corrected.

I'd be interested about Copnor, as this would be the only extant set, AFAIK.  There is no mention of the chime on the church website that I can find.

Dunham's wooden bellcote rotted and was replaced with a stone gable end with one conventional bell.

Mike

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Bryan McCahey <b.mccahey at ...> wrote:
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> Can anybody please enlighten me as to what exactly "bar chimes" are? c.f. Allerton Bywater, Copnor, Goldthorpe and Dunham-on-the-Hill ? Are the Copnor chimes extant? How do they differ from conventional tubular chimes? There's certainly no current evidence of a chime at Dunham on the Hill, just a conventional bell turret.
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> Bryan McCahey
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