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Professor Ged Martin
Church bells.
- Credit: Ellie Hoskins
Havering has heard the sound for bells for six centuries.
In 1421, Beatrice Curzon, owner of Cranham Hall, bequeathed £5 – big bucks – to install bells at nearby All Saints Church.
Havering churches probably already had bells. Two survive from before the Reformation. One at Upminster is inscribed (in Latin) Saint Gabriel, pray for us .
A Cranham bell has a similar prayer to St Peter.
Catholic inscriptions were generally erased by Protestants, but bellfounding is a delicate art: file off an inscription and your clanging bell becomes a clunking can.
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