[Bell Historians] Navestock, Essex

[oliver Lee]

According to a 1458 Inventory (also in Deedes and Walters) the tower had a ring of three and a Sanctus bell so I'd imagine they were probably made into four in 1637 when the present 3rd and tenor were cast before being augmented to five in 1862 by Mears, from what I have read they never seem to have been an easy five and even as early as 1884 they were described as being in "bad going order" which suggests to me that there were tower issues. They did however continue to be rung until about 1904 and after being unringble for about 60 years they were eventually patched by a south Hackney band in 1965, my Friend Paul cammiade actually rang there a couple of years later in 1978 and he described the tenor as being so awkward that it had to be rung with a strapper Clearly the 1982 rehang was needed!
Regards
Oliver lee



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Subject: [Bell Historians] Navestock, Essex

Does anyone happen to know whether the 1862 George Mears & Co. bell at
Navestock, Essex replaced an earlier treble of five, or whether this is
the date of the augmentation from four?  Deedes and Walters' 'Church
Bells of Essex' doesn't say, and Mortant's 'History and Antiquities of
Essex' (1768) doesn't say how many bells there were at the time.  I cn't
find any newspaper reports around the time of the 1862 casting.  The
Ringing World articles on 1965/275, 1981/843 and 1982/688 don't help.

RAS

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