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 St Lawrence, Appleby
St Lawrence, Appleby: bell ringing
locality type:-   ring of bells


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BQR49.jpg  Bell ropes.
(taken 1.6.2009)  
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BRF03.jpg  Place mats for the ringers.
(taken 3.8.2009)  


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BRF04.jpg  Bells Up! warning notice.
(taken 3.8.2009)  


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BRE93.jpg  Two old bells.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BRE94.jpg  Inscription on one of the two unused old bells.
(taken 3.8.2009)  

notes:-  
Other notices include:-
Information about the bells with their weights and notes when cast in 1833 at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London.
Information about the bells with their weights and notes when tuned and rehung in 1989 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London. Also Belfry Maintenance instructions.
Record of a quarter peal of Plain Bob Minor, rung by the Carlisle Guild for deliverance from foot and mouth, 2002.
Certificate for Millenium Project -Ring In 2000- on 1st January 2000.

Dove data:-  
scale:-
A flat, B flat, C, D flat, E flat, F
First 6 notes; intervals TTSTT; A flat major.
Bells cast by Thomas Mears, 1833.
There are two other bells: one cast in 1299; the other cast by William de Norwich, 1399.

Dove 2009
www.dove.cccbr.org.uk

notes:-  
The bells were rung when the Settle and Carlisle Railway sanctioned by Parliament, 1869. Local people fought to keep the line open in the 1980s, but sadly the bells were not rung when the line was saved - because they were away for repair.

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