{"id":718,"date":"2013-03-25T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/materialistic-spiders.flywheelsites.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2013-03-25T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:46:45","slug":"gillett-johnston-croydon-ltd-makers-of-ellacombe-chime-apparatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/gillett-johnston-croydon-ltd-makers-of-ellacombe-chime-apparatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd Makers of Ellacombe Chime Apparatus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gillett & Johnston Ellacombe Chimes<\/p><\/div>\n

Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd Makers of Ellacombe Chime Apparatus<\/strong><\/p>\n

We recently had an enquiry for information regarding an Ellacombe chime apparatus that Gillett & Johnston Made for a church in 1879.\u00a0 These are very rare and so I had to know more and stumble upon a record in our 1906 catalogue;<\/p>\n

\u2018To bring out the full tune of a bell it should be swung in its frame.\u00a0 The effect of this is to throw out the vibrations in all directions and to increase the apparent volume of sound, but though not so effective as \u201cringing\u201d (when the bells are swung in a frame), the use of our Ellacombe Apparatus fitted to a peal will enable one person alone to \u201cchime\u201d or play tunes on the bells<\/a>.\u00a0 In this case the latter can be hung \u201cdead\u201d and the expense of ringing frames will be avoided. \u201c<\/p>\n

The Ellacombe apparatus looked similar to a church organ and were able to be placed in the main church with ropes travelling up through the ceiling to the bells reducing the need to climb many stairs to gain access to the bells.\u00a0 The ropes were taut, and pulling one of the ropes towards the operator would strike the hammer against the bell.\u00a0 By installing an Ellacombe installation you would also only need to hang the bells as static as the hammer only struck against the inside of the bell.<\/a><\/p>\n

The system was devised by Reverend Henry Thomas Ellacombe\u00a0in 1821. \u00a0The rumour is that he created this device in order to prevent unruly bell-ringers from being needed.<\/p>\n

Sadly alot of Churches have since had The Ellacombe apparatus removed,\u00a0but there are still visible holes in the ceiling which the ropes would have come through into the ringing chamber, and often the frames are still in the ringing chamber, without ropes.<\/p>\n

For more information about Gillett & Johnston Ellacombe Chime Apparatus please call us on 01883 740000 or, if preferred use the contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd Makers of Ellacombe Chime Apparatus We recently had an enquiry for information regarding an Ellacombe chime apparatus that Gillett & Johnston Made for a church in 1879.\u00a0 These are very rare and so I had to know more and stumble upon a record in our 1906 catalogue; \u2018To bring out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21,1],"tags":[52,39,38],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}