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St Andrew's & St George's Church |
Removing the Bells - 3
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs - please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken 4 September 2003
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St Andrew's & St George's Church |
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This is one of a series of photographs taken on 4 September 2003, as the bells were being removed from St Andrew's & St George's church, to be returned to Whitechapel Foundry in East London, where they were originally cast in the 18th century. These bells were installed in a wooden housing, high in the church steeple, in 1788. They were used for change ringing (where the bells rotate through a full circle) for over a century. The change ringing ceased in 1903, when the bells were thought not to be in a fit state to continue. Instead, small clappers were attached to the bells, allowing them to be used to play hymn tunes, as in the thumbnail picture below.
. The bells have now [September 2003] been taken down from the church steeple, and are being returned to Whitechapel Bell Foundry for refurbishment and retuning. They will then be re-hung in a metal frame in a new bell chamber in the church steeple, so that change ringing might be heard again, one day, from the church. |
