George, Wilderness Heights, Dutch Reformed Church ; Dutch Reformed Church, Wilderness Heights (Eden District)

A few miles north of Wilderness stands a modest church that was built by D.A. Gerber and inaugurated on 3 October 1953 by the minister of the NG-church in Hoekwil, Dr. W.J.C. Lubbe. Behind the church stands a solid iron construction in which a bell is hanging. The reference to the founder figures on the shoulder of the bell, in between two pairs of two moulding wires: JOHN WARNER & SONS, FOUNDERS LONDON. 1920. Below this text we see a decorative band consisting of a set of circles that each contain two further circles with diminishing radius. Then follows again a moulding wire. There are t... Mehr ...

Dokumenttyp: Image
Erscheinungsdatum: 1920
Schlagwörter: Bells -- South Africa -- History / Wilderness / Garden Route (South Africa) -- Bells / John Warner & Sons / London / Dutch Reformed Church / Hoekwil / Warner Foundry / Cripplegate
Sprache: Englisch
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A few miles north of Wilderness stands a modest church that was built by D.A. Gerber and inaugurated on 3 October 1953 by the minister of the NG-church in Hoekwil, Dr. W.J.C. Lubbe. Behind the church stands a solid iron construction in which a bell is hanging. The reference to the founder figures on the shoulder of the bell, in between two pairs of two moulding wires: JOHN WARNER & SONS, FOUNDERS LONDON. 1920. Below this text we see a decorative band consisting of a set of circles that each contain two further circles with diminishing radius. Then follows again a moulding wire. There are three more moulding rings above the sound bow and a final pair on the lip. Notwithstanding its situation in the open air, the bell is in remarkably good condition. The Warner foundry in Cripplegate, London has had a large number of founders, eleven in a row. The indication Warner & Sons refers to the last persons in the founder’s dynasty that covered the period 1850-1924. Afterwards, the foundry was taken over by Mears.