[Bell Historians] GREENOCK - A PATINATED BRONZE CHURCH BELL - for sale

['Anne Willis' zen16073@zen.co.uk [bellhistorians]]

I had a look through Walters’ Church Bells of Wiltshire and found a drawing of the bell inscription at Foxley (bottom of p.89, wrongly attributed to Foxham)

 

The inscription looks very similar to the Greenock bell with the three small, stacked horizontal lines between the words.  There are only two bell between the R and P.  The Purdues usually only used one bell e.g. R (bell) P, and the style changed after the Commonwealth.

 

The Foxley inscription is

 

(fleur de lys) SIR (lines)THOMAS (lines) ESCOVRT (lines) KNIGHT (LINES) (fleur de lys) 1677 (fleur de lys) R(two bells)P

 

 

Anne

 

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Subject: [Bell Historians] GREENOCK - A PATINATED BRONZE CHURCH BELL - for sale

 

  

This 1677 bell is for sale in an Edinburgh auction on 16th August. Estimate £2-3k. The auctioneer's description is below. Details at https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/lyon-and-turnbull/catalogue-id-srly10130/lot-1c13c2d9-8b20-4b34-b900-a7b700c0b2bc?utm_source=auction-alert <https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/lyon-and-turnbull/catalogue-id-srly10130/lot-1c13c2d9-8b20-4b34-b900-a7b700c0b2bc?utm_source=auction-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link> &utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link

 

 

GREENOCK - A PATINATED BRONZE CHURCH BELL 

WHITECHAPEL FOUNDRY, DATED 1677  

inscribed to the shoulder RP/ FOR THE CHURCH OF GRINNOCK 1677 with three bell foundry mark 

Height: 46cm 
Note: The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Britain's oldest manufacturing company, was established in 1570 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and has been in continuous business since that date. 

Whitechapel's famous bells include the original Liberty Bell (1752), the Great Bell of Montreal and, probably its best known bell, Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, cast in 1858. 

On 22nd March 2017 the foundry closed the doors at the East London premises it has occupied since 1738 and moved to new premises at Smithfield.  <https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5fe6e46b-ee72-4958-a246-a7980093f5a2/f0c89cb5-5f65-4e75-871b-0b4ff6146c30/540x360.jpg> 

 



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