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grey ball Bell weights and notes
   
        Bellhangers Bliss and Sharpe Parish Magazine  
        (canons removed)      
  Date Founder Diameter (inches) Weight (cwt qr lb) Weight (cwt qr lb) Weight (cwt qr lb) Note
  Treble 1913 Taylor 24.75 3-3-14 3-1-0   G
2 1913 Taylor 25.5 4-0-18 4   F#
3 1913 Taylor 27.125 4-1-25 4-2-0 5 E
4 1698 Rudhall 29.625 5-0-7 6 5-2 D
5 1698 Rudhall 31.625 5-2-18 6-2-0 6-2 C
6 1698 Rudhall 33.375 6-2-5 7 7 B
7 1698 Rudhall 36 7-3-19 8 8 A
8 1698 Rudhall 39.625 10-0-12 11 11 G


 

 

 

 

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  Manufacturer John Taylor and Co.1913   cast iron side pattern
 
   
    East      
    2 3     2,3 swing north / south
  North 1 8 5 4 South   1,8,5,4 swing east / west
    7 6   7,6 swing north / south
    West      
 
   
   
  1,2,3,4,5,6 plain bearings 7,8 roller bearings
  All fixed steel gudgeons    
    cast iron headstocks    
    Hastings stays    
    traditional wheels    
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grey ball Inscriptions
     
  Treble NOW I AM CAST WE'RE EIGHT AT LAST ornament 1913/ Loughborough foundry Mark/
WALTER B. WOOD

JOHN M BUCHANAN
CHURCH WARDENS.
  2 SAINT LAWRENCE (border) / Loughborough foundry mark / 1913 / RING IN THE LOVE OF TRUTH AND RIGHT / *** / FRANCIS HARVIE FOWLER VICAR
  3 CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1873 / IN MEMORIAM MARIAE ANNE / UXORIS DILECTAE MEAE / D.D. / JACOBUS HENRICUS DOWLING / 1873 / (Loughborough foundry mark) RECAST 1913
  4 (vine border and cable moulding all round) GOD SAVE THE KING A R (early bell) 1698 (early bell) (scroll)
  5 PEACE AND GOOD NEIGHBOVRHOOD ABRA : RVDHALL (early bell) 1698. / (vine border and cable moulding all round bell above sound bow)
  6 IN 98. ALL WE WERE CAST (fleur-de-lys ) WE WERE BVT 4 AT FIRST NOW 6 AT LAST (vine) / (cable moulding and vine border all round)
  7 (cable moulding and vine border all round) / WM: BLIZARD (arabesque) SAM: COLLERICK (arabesque) CHVRCH WARDENS : A : R (early bell) : 1698 (arabesque)
  8 GOD : PROSPER : THIS : PARISH : A R (early bell) 1698 (arabesque) WILLIAM :IOHNSON : GENT :

References;
i) Barnwood Parish Magazine June 1912. ii) Church Bells of Gloucestershire Mary Bliss & Frederick Sharpe ISBN 0-86299-084-X.


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