[Bell Historians] Seaview IOW

[Carl S Zimmerman]

Dove records only one bell in Seaview, at S.Peter.  However, records of the Meneely/Troy bellfoundry show that a set of four bells, with weights matching the Westminster chime tune, was shipped to The Priory, Seaview, on an unspecified date.  They had originally been made for the stable of George F. Baker, in Tuxedo Park, New York, to which they had been shipped on August 18, 1905.  A YouTube video made by The Bearded Explorer a little over a year ago shows that a clock tower was erected in Baker's memory on the grounds of what was most recently The Priory Hotel (now apparently abandoned).  Presumably that is where the four bells from Baker's estate in New York were installed.

Does anyone know what has happened to those bells?

Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist 
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -
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