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St Laurence
Tuesday, 25 August 1885 in 26m (23–0–20 in D)
575 Grandsire Caters
1 A E Reeves
2 F W Round
3 H M Bawden
4 J Potter
5 W H Holloway
6 W Johnson
7 W Goseltine
8 W J Williams (C)
9 W Newell
10 R T Hibbert
On Tuesday, August 25th, an attempt was made at St. Laurence's for a quarter-peal of Grandsire Triples, with the bells half-muffled, for the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, late Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon, but after ringing 826 changes in 35 mins., the tenor rope broke, thus bringing it to grief. [See separate entry.]
After adjusting another rope, this 575 of Grandsire Caters was rung, in 26½ mins.
[Bell News, August 29, 1885, p174.]
This performance was rung In memoriam — Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe (1790 - 1885)
