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| St Michael, Brough: bell ringing | ||
 BRH56.jpg 3 of the 4 bell ropes. (taken 21.8.2009) |
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Church Bells in the Deanery of Brampton:- |
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| vol.6 p.83 |
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| Godfrey, Robert: 1881: Westmorland Bells: TransCWAAS: vol.6: pp.83-85 |
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| E, F sharp, G sharp, A |
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| First 4 notes; intervals TTS; E major. |
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| The heaviest ring of four bells |
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| Bell 1 cast about 1687; 2 by John Warner and Sons, 1880; 3 by James Barwell, 1887;
4 about 1500. |
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| Dove 2009 www.dove.cccbr.org.uk |
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| story:- |
"The church at Brough is a pretty large and ancient building. The steeple is not so
old, having been built about the year 1513, under the direction of Thomas Blenkinsop
of Helbeck, Esqr. There are in it four excellent bells, by much the largest in the
county, except the great bell at Kirkby Thore. Concerning these bells at Brough, there
is a tradition that they were given by one Brunskill, who lived upon Stanemore, in
the remotest part of the parish, and had a great many cattle. One time it happened
that his Bull fell bellowing, which in the dialect of the country is called cruning,
this being the genuine Saxon word to denote vociferation. Thereupon he said to one
of his neighbours, 'Hearest thou how loud this bull crunes? If these catlle should
all crune together, might they not be heard from Brough hither?' He answered, 'Yea.'
'Well then,' says Brunskill, 'I'll make them all crune together.' And he sold them
all, and with the price thereof he bought the said bells, (or perhaps he might get
the old bells new cast and made larger)." |
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| Nicolson and Burn:: History and Antiquities of Westmorland and Cumberland Morris, Ernest: : Legends o' the Bells: Sampson Low, Marston and Co (London) |
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