Guess the Place

[Beachbum]

You are all correct, so I am not sure who takes the the Prize? Between you we have an interesting history of the Waterloo Tower.

I think that goes to grandarog for the exact description.
(I was confused by the dozen speakers)

[MartinR]

Information on the bells and official listing (grade II) can be found at:

• http://kent.lovesguide.com/tower.php?id=226
• https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/tower/14108
• https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1094674?section=official-list-entry

The former, "Love's Guide to the Church Bells of Kent", is the more comprehensive.  "Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers" is internationally recognised as the standard reference work.
Location information:

• Nat Grid:                    TR 31081 68042
• Nearest Post Code:   CT7 0BH
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°21'52N",001°19'05"E or 51.36441,1.31816

Please note that this is the location information for the tower, to access the tower you need to enter the grounds through the visitor entrance which is some way off.


According to Dove there are "51 full-circle rings which are in the British Isles, are in the ownership of Private Ownership, and have at least 3 bells". Some of these are quite small (eg the Tulloch 8, tenor 1-1-15) and the 51 includes portable rings.  Not all are ringable.  Some in private ownership are in former churches which are owned by a trust or converted to secular use.

[grandarog]

Waterloo Tower, Grounds of Quex House Birchington.

The Tower is one of three Folleys built in the early 1800,s.
The Waterloo Tower at Quex Park is a prominent local landmark built in 1819, purely for John Powell Powells love of campanology. The Tower was the first with 12 Bells to be built in Kent and one of the only 12 Bell Towers, not attached to a church, still in regular use in the UK.
The red bricks for the building came from the Faversham brickfields and the original twelve bells were cast in 1818/1819 by Thomas Mears of Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

[John Walker]

Not seen this view before but a guess would be in the grounds of Quex House.

[MartinR]

I'll keep stum on this one, the dozen speakers below are of more interest to me.

[Beachbum]

Thanks grandarog. Strange thing is that many have a look, but no guess?


So next one.........

[grandarog]

Well done Beachbum.
 Maybe we will get some others interested in having a go one day.I live in hope.  
                Over to you.

[Beachbum]

No takers? So it's Hartlip

[Beachbum]

Found it, but will hang fire for others to locate

[John Walker]

Sorry, another one that I recognise, so again I'll hold back.

[grandarog]

Thanks MartinR  .


Where did I take this photo of a Village sign.

[MartinR]

Spot on Grandarog.  Manor Farm, Parsonage Lane, Frindsbury.  It is sometimes open on heritage days.  Location:

• Nat Grid:                   TQ 7469 7003
• Nearest Post Code:  ME2 4UT
• Co-ords (WGS84):    51°24'09"N,000°30'36E or 51.4024,0.5100

So over to you.

[grandarog]

That must be Manor Farm Barn, Frindsbury,Near Strood.


The great barn at Frindsbury was built in about 1403 and at 210 feet long was one of the longest in England. It had 13 full bays, but unfortunately 4 of these were destroyed in a great fire in 2005.
[/size]It was in the ownership of the Church Commissioners, but has now been bought by a consortium of local business men who plan to restore it and make it the centre of a community heritage area.

[John Walker]

Littlebourne Barn?

[MartinR]

The barn may date from 1300, which is what is in the official listing, but more recent dendrochronological examination may suggest a later date of c. 1400.  The source for the listing includes the phrases "the undoubted queen of the kentish barns" and "Its carpentry is peerless".  So where is it?