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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… 1907), 128. A four foot crack had been discovered in the bell, which was broken up and recast the following year in Whitechapel. The new bell was hung in the tower in October 1858, and the clock …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… not strike the hours and now today we learn that the great bell, Big Ben no. 2, has cracked. 85 [space left] 4. Began … Grounds. Rainy. The cracking of the second great bell has of course given rise to considerable talk, everyone … but not until 11 July were the hours struck on the great bell. The four quarter bells were first chimed on 7 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… being installed. 58 The oldest, probably pre-Reformation, bell bears a Latin prayer in Gothic script to the Virgin. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… at the W. end is plastered timber-framing supporting the bell-turret. The early 16th-century roof of the porch has two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… has, in both the N. and S. walls, a pointed loop. The bell-chamber has, in each wall, a window of two four-centred …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… brick corbelling, and probably intended to support a bell-cot or similar structure; two original oak-framed …