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On Monday last the Bishop of Rochester consecrated the new church of the Holy Trinity, Eltham, Kent. (Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Sat 11 Sept 1869) |
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The other churches of Eltham are provided with bells. which are used to proclaim the time of public worship. But none of them is of any particular historical interest. except the one at Holy Trinity. This was brought to England from the Crimea after the great war. Its original home was a turret in Sebastopol where it witnessed the incidents of the terrible siege, and its voice was familiar to the British troops in the trenches. It was afterwards secured, found its way to Eltham, and was placed in the turret of Holy Trinity when the church was built, where it has done its part in proclaiming the message of Peace and Goodwill. (The Story of Royal Eltham, Gregory, R R C, 1909) |
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HISTORIC BELL. The bell at Holy Trinity Church, Eltham, which the vicar states, was taken from Sebastopol war hospital, and rang all night in the battle of Inkerman in 1854, is to be replaced by a new one. St. Luke's, Eltham, has an old lighthouse bell. (Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 18 September 1925) |
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Bell above the north porch. 1. Mears & Stainbank, 1961, 26" Disused bell (said to be cracked) in the church by the south wall of the nave. 1. Gillett & Johnston, 1925 , 21" Card alongside states "This bell was brought back from Sebastopol in the Crimea where it had been rung all night above the monastery hospital during the action of the battle. Used as the church bell until recently. It has four times been recast only to crack again at once." (Southwark Survey, Elphick, G P, Nov 1974) |