Bell
Category
Metalwork
Date
1400 - 1500
Materials
Bellmetal, Wood, Iron
Measurements
355 mm (Diameter); 40 kg (weight)
Place of origin
Exeter
Order this imageCollection
Killerton, Devon
NT 922684
Summary
Small bell in the West Gable Turret of Columbjohn Chapel, 15⅛” [355mm] diameter, uninscribed. The moulding-wires have a pattern which suggests that it is almost certainly 15th-century, and probably from the Exeter foundry. The bell (although disused) is hung for swing chiming. It is fitted with a wooden headstock (probably oak) with drive-in gudgeons, stock hoops and plain bearings (or sockets) in wooden blocks set in the sides of the turret. There is a clapper inside the bell. The headstock has an iron chiming lever on the east side, originally connecting to the rope inside the church by a chain through the roof. The chain has broken and so the bell cannot now be rung.
Provenance
Acland- part of Killerton Chapel finished 1841