Bell Tower - St Margaret - Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire - Bell Towers on Waymarking.com

Bell tower of St Margaret's church, Hemingford Abbots, with a ring of 6 bells.

Hemingford Abbots S Margaret of Antioch
Bells
Bell	Weight	Nominal	Note	Diameter	Dated	Founder	Canons	Turning
1	5-3-2	1390.0	E#	28.25"	1897	John Taylor & Co	F	N
2	6cwt	1247.0	D#	30.50"	1754	Joseph Eayre	R	N
3	6¾cwt	1134.0	C#	31.75"	1754	Joseph Eayre	R	N
4	7¾cwt	1054.0	B#	33.25"	1754	Joseph Eayre	R	N
5	9¼cwt	934.0	A#	36.00"	1754	Joseph Eayre	R	N
6	14cwt	826.0	G#	40.75"	1754	Joseph Eayre	R	N

Frames
Frame	Bells	Year	Material	Maker	Truss	Layout
1	1,2,3,4,5,6	1894	Cast iron	Loughborough Bellfoundry	8.3.C.e	6.4

SOURCE - (Visit Link)

"The Church of ST. MARGARET THE VIRGIN consists of a chancel (30 ft. by 15½ ft.), with vestry and organ chamber on north, nave (52¾ ft. by 15¼ ft.), north aisle (61 ft. by 9¾ ft.), south aisle (61 ft. by 12½ ft.), west tower (12 ft. by 12¾ ft.) and south porch. The walls are of rubble with stone dressings, except the chancel and vestry, etc., which are of brick; and the roofs are covered with lead and slates.

The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but nothing of this date remains. It is probable that in the 12th century the church had a central tower, of which small parts of the walls may still remain. A complete reconstruction took place at the end of the 13th century, the aisles being first rebuilt, then the arcades, including arches in the north and south walls of the central tower (which was apparently then pulled down and its west wall removed) and a low clearstory. Late in the 14th century the west tower was built, partly within the church and absorbing part of the western bay of the nave.

The nave, which includes the space formerly occupied by the central tower, the position of which is evidenced by the greater thickness of the walls, has an arcade, c. 1300, of four bays on each side. On the north, the eastern arch, pierced in the wall of the tower, is two centred but struck from below the springing, and rests on a wall pier with moulded abacus and on a semi-octagonal eastern respond. The three western arches, also two-centred, rest on two octagonal columns with moulded caps, but part of the western arch has been absorbed into the walls of the later tower.

The late 14th-century west tower has a two-centred tower-arch of three orders, the lowest resting on attached shafts with moulded caps and bases.

The west doorway has a two-centred arch with continuous moulded jambs; over it is a three-light window; in the next stage is a single-light window on the south; and the belfry windows are of two lights. The buttresses are semi-hexagonal below, becoming semi-octagonal in the second stage, and then diagonal, being finally carried up as crocketed pinnacles at the angles of an embattled parapet. The tower is surmounted by an octagonal spire with two tiers of light, the lowest on the cardinal faces; above each tier is a band of battlement ornament. The stairs, in the north-east angle with a doorway in the north aisle, are now blocked."

SOURCE - (Visit Link)

Address of Tower: St Margaret Church Lane Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire England PE28 9AL Still Operational: yes Number of bells in tower?: 6 Relevant website?: [Web Link] Rate tower: Not listed Tours or visits allowed in tower?: Not listed

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