[Bell Historians] Dunkeld Cathedral

[Richard Smith richard@ex-parrot.com [bellhistorians]]

On Friday I had lunch in Dunkeld and had a brief wander 
around the Cathedral.  The ruined nave is currently closed 
to the public while repairs are carried out, but the chancel 
and the ground floor of west tower were open.  The ceiling 
of the ground floor room of the tower contains a wide 
circular hole with a balustrade around it.  I'm not sure 
whether this is the floor from which the bells are now rung, 
or whether that's higher up.  In the vaulting around this 
hole, centrally on each of the four sides of the room, are 
what appear to be four quite ancient wooden rope chutes.  I 
can't think what else they could be.  The tower now has a 
ring of six cast by Thomas II Mears in 1814, but does anyone 
know what (if anything) was there previously?  Was it 
perhaps a ring of four?

RAS


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Posted by: Richard Smith <richard at ex-parrot.com>
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