[Bell Historians] Auckland

[Mike Chester]

Being at home for however long this takes, I have been randomly trawling the internet and have come across a history of St Marthew's bells in Auckland, NZ.

https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells

This states:

"The eight bells were cast by John Warner & Sons Ltd at Spitalfields, London in 1862. They were cast for the 1862 International Exhibition, London.



Funding for the bells was the work of Mrs Selwyn aided by Lady Lucy Herbert and her friends.


They arrived in Auckland in 1863, aboard the good ship "Nimroud", and hung for many years in a wooden tower at Bishopcourt, Parnell. No. 4 bell was returned to London and recast by Warners in 1883.



In 1906, the bells, in their original oak frame, were re-installed in the tower of St Matthew-in-the-City. "


Does this make them a transferred ring?  They are not in the lists as such.


Mike
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