Bell Tower - All Saints - Ashbocking, Suffolk
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N 52° 08.773 E 001° 10.161
31U E 374739 N 5778881
Bell tower, All Saints' church, Ashbocking.
Waymark Code: WMV5KW
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/27/2017
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Bell tower, All Saints' church, Ashbocking.
Ashbocking, Suffolk
All Saints
|
Bells |
Bell |
Weight |
Nominal |
Note |
Diameter |
Dated |
Founder |
Canons |
Turning |
1 |
3-3-11 |
1382.0 |
F |
25.50" |
1904 |
John Taylor & Co |
F |
N |
2 |
4-1-13 |
1239.0 |
Eb |
27.63" |
1904 |
John Taylor & Co |
F |
N |
3 |
5-1-20 |
1102.0 |
Db |
30.63" |
1904 |
John Taylor & Co |
F |
N |
4 |
5-3-20 |
1037.0 |
C |
32.25" |
1615 |
Miles I Graye |
R |
8 |
5 |
7-2-10 |
929.0 |
Bb |
34.50" |
1904 |
John Taylor & Co |
F |
N |
6 |
10-0-21 |
826.0 |
Ab |
38.38" |
1904 |
John Taylor & Co |
F |
N |
Ashbocking, Suffolk
All Saints |
Frames |
Frame |
Bells |
Year |
Material |
Maker |
Truss |
Layout |
1 |
1,2,3,4,5,6 |
1904 |
Cast iron |
Loughborough Bellfoundry |
8.3.C.e |
6.1 |
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Peal records
"Tudor brick W. tower, which is more reminiscent of Essex than it is of Suffolk
The tower, this is constructed in English-bonded brick, with diapering in dark headers. It rises in four stages to two-light bell-openings and a plain parapet, supported by wide diagonal buttresses with three set-offs, and with a projecting stair turret at the east end of the S. wall, which ascends to the bell-stage. The four-centred W. doorway formed in moulded brick, is formed of two orders beneath a hood-mould and a label, and the three-light W. window immediately above, is constructed in stone and provides just sufficient room for a little supermullioned tracery over the central light. Inside the church, the four-centred tower arch is tall, constructed in stone, and composed of one flat-chamfered and one hollow-chamfered order, supported on semi-octagonal responds.."
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