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
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member rjmcdonough1
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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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Address of Tower:
All Saints
Church Road
Ashbocking, Suffolk England
IP6 9LG


Still Operational: yes

Number of bells in tower?: 6

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Tours or visits allowed in tower?: Unknown

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