Bell Tower - St Michael the Archangel - Halam, Nottinghamshire
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N 53° 04.939 W 000° 59.355
30U E 634677 N 5883316
Bell Tower of St Michael the Archangel, Halam, with a ring of 2 bells.
Waymark Code: WM112D6
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/04/2019
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Bell Tower of St Michael the Archangel, Halam, with a ring of 2 bells.
"The earliest is the treble by an unknown founder and dates from the C13th; there is no inscription. (18" weight: 1.1.13)
The tenor is a recasting of a smaller bell by William Noone. That added inscription by Taylors shows that it was recast as a memorial. The inscription reads:
GOD SAVE HIS CHURCH W TEDMAN 1722.
RECAST IN 1965
IN MEMORY OF SIR STEPHEN AND LADY GIBSON
OF THE MANOR FARM
ALSO IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE GIBSON 1868-1961
The old bell (before recasting) was 21" in diameter and weighed 1.2.14; the current one is 30", wieghing 5.0.19.
Both bells are hung for swing chiming between two RSJ’s by Taylors 1965."
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"The tower is massive, somewhat squat and two storeys high. It may have originally been intended to have a third storey - the size of the base certainly suggests so. Its pyramidal roof is a restoration but is probably typical of those on Norman towers of this sort. There is a tall pinnacle and a large grotesque waterspout gargoyle at each of its top corners. The west door into the tower has a pointed arch with a carved head on each capital, one male and one female. On the first floor is the belfry with three narrow two-light openings; the one on the front of the church is bricked up and covered by the large clock face.
A peculiarity of Halam church is that rather than being aligned along an East-West axis, it actually lies on South East-North West line. This may be due to an error of the original builders, a local idiosyncrasy or because it was aligned with an earlier, probably pagan building."
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