Henry Williams : The Glasbury Bellfounder, and the production and tuning of bells
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: Book chapter
- Identifier: vital:6159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004779 , Full text available to the end of Chapter 2
- Description: The production and tuning of church bells is described before attention is paid to Henry Williams, the Glasbury bellfounder who died in 1722, and his bells. The bells of TP, his apparent successor are also described. Henry Williams was probably a member of the Williams family of Gwernyfed and was born c 1635. His presumed family connections are described. Bells known to have been cast by Henry Williams between 1677 and 1719 are listed; their distribution depicted; and their qualities assessed. The inventory of Williams' possessions at the time of his death is presented and discussed. Bells cast by TP during a brief foray into bell founding, apparently 1738-40, are described and their qualities assessed. TP was probably Benjamin Tanner (T), the industrialist specialising in iron production who succeeded Williams at the Pipton forge (P) in Aberllynfi parish near Glasbury, or Tanner (T) and Samuel Prichard (P). Prichard was the grandson of Henry Williams and his sole executor. , A complete copy of this book is available at The Whiting Society of Ringers at: http://www.whitingsociety.org.uk
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: Book chapter
- Identifier: vital:6159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004779 , Full text available to the end of Chapter 2
- Description: The production and tuning of church bells is described before attention is paid to Henry Williams, the Glasbury bellfounder who died in 1722, and his bells. The bells of TP, his apparent successor are also described. Henry Williams was probably a member of the Williams family of Gwernyfed and was born c 1635. His presumed family connections are described. Bells known to have been cast by Henry Williams between 1677 and 1719 are listed; their distribution depicted; and their qualities assessed. The inventory of Williams' possessions at the time of his death is presented and discussed. Bells cast by TP during a brief foray into bell founding, apparently 1738-40, are described and their qualities assessed. TP was probably Benjamin Tanner (T), the industrialist specialising in iron production who succeeded Williams at the Pipton forge (P) in Aberllynfi parish near Glasbury, or Tanner (T) and Samuel Prichard (P). Prichard was the grandson of Henry Williams and his sole executor. , A complete copy of this book is available at The Whiting Society of Ringers at: http://www.whitingsociety.org.uk
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- Date Issued: 2012
Change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the First World War, with especial reference to peal ringing at Glasbury
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012397 , http://www.brecknocksociety.co.uk/society.htm
- Description: This paper discusses the development of change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the start of the First World War in 19 14, with special reference to peal ringing at Glasbury. Since the men who rang peals there, prior to that war, came from other towers as well as from Glasbury, brief mention is made of ringing at those towers and of members of those towers who rang peals at Glasbury. The towers discussed include Talgarth, Bronllys, Brecon, Llanelli (named Llanelly on Ordnance Survey maps) and Builth Wells, which were in the Diocese of St David's at that time, and centres in Herefordshire which were in the Diocese of Hereford. Attention is also paid to the role of the Hereford Diocesan Guild of Bellringers and of the peripatetic instructors employed by that Guild. An excellent introduction toringing is provided by R. J. Johnston's Bell-Ringing; the English Art of Change-Ringing (Viking, 1986), while the web-site of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (www.cccbr.org.uk) is also informative. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He was the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa for 20 years.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012397 , http://www.brecknocksociety.co.uk/society.htm
- Description: This paper discusses the development of change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the start of the First World War in 19 14, with special reference to peal ringing at Glasbury. Since the men who rang peals there, prior to that war, came from other towers as well as from Glasbury, brief mention is made of ringing at those towers and of members of those towers who rang peals at Glasbury. The towers discussed include Talgarth, Bronllys, Brecon, Llanelli (named Llanelly on Ordnance Survey maps) and Builth Wells, which were in the Diocese of St David's at that time, and centres in Herefordshire which were in the Diocese of Hereford. Attention is also paid to the role of the Hereford Diocesan Guild of Bellringers and of the peripatetic instructors employed by that Guild. An excellent introduction toringing is provided by R. J. Johnston's Bell-Ringing; the English Art of Change-Ringing (Viking, 1986), while the web-site of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (www.cccbr.org.uk) is also informative. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He was the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa for 20 years.
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- Date Issued: 2010
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