Talk:St Mary-le-Bow

Recording?
It would be nice if there was a link to a recording of the bells.

Possible confusion
I'm sure the church has often been known as 'Bow Church', but this should not be confused with 'Bow Church' light railway station in Bow, East London. --Cedderstk 12:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Londoners tend to define landmarks etc by their transport links, so London Transport (as was) tried hard to get these things right. There is no confusion about Bow Church: For at least eighty years the number 8 'bus has left Victoria Station with Bow Church written on the front. Nobody is surprised when it passes St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside and continues for another twenty-five minutes to Bow Church, in Bow. Similarly, there was no possibilty for confusion when Bow Church station was named in 1987. Old Moonraker 17:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It would be useful if someone could add an entry for St Mary's Church, Bow Road, Bow (otherwise known as Bow Church) to Wikipedia, as it has no listing at present. Here's a link with some info on the church: www.eolfhs.org.uk/parish/bow.htm

82.153.198.125 (talk) 22:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)J Rackowe
 * Linkrot -   replacing the image for the comment above with New Routemaster  heading for Bow Church. --217.155.32.221 (talk) 21:02, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Wedding cake
I have heard that this church has inspired the shape of the wedding cake. any comments? (see )Deror 13:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The external link you supply refers to St Bride's Church, not St Mary-le-Bow. This WP article says the architectural style employed was named after the cake, and not the other way around. I have added a "fact" request to the sentence you added to the article. However, there are a couple of blogs which do make this claim. --Old Moonraker 14:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Nobody's come up with anything, and now an editor has deleted it. Old Moonraker 15:35, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Tomb of Godfery Denis Smith
"Godfery Smith" supposedly died in 1904: the citation provided is in a work dealing with the period 1840—1870. If I'm missing something please let me know (a page number would be useful) but meanwhile the addition is reverted.--Old Moonraker (talk) 12:07, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Link to one, possibly two colonial Boston churches
"Old South Meeting's" (Third Church, Boston II, 1729) tower is designed after that of St. Mary-le-Bow, and in working on early church architecture in the area overall, I've just noticed that a church long since replaced, the First Church in Charlestown II (1719) also has a lantern similar to it. I haven't worked as specficially yet on other possibilities in the South or Middle colonies, but I suspect they may exist. There are similar citations possible for at least one other Boston church I know of, but it has other complications so I'm holding off on that for a bit. Any thoughts?Dellaroux (talk) 11:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Do the bells ring?
The article says the bells were cast in 1956 and were rung one time in 1961. Does this mean they are not being rung? If so why not? Thanks. Steve Dufour (talk) 04:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No, the "only" in this context just indicates that it wasn't until 1961 that they rang again. Ever since, they have been ringing just as they are supposed to. --31.17.188.18 (talk) 22:42, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Bell weight confusion
I read the weights but, it does not give what each number actually means.

Two examples 5-3-21 5-3-10

Maybe someone can comment and tell me what these measurements represent. I thought hundredweight, pounds and ounces but, there is only sixteen ounces in a pound so, it can not be that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.0.234.34 (talk) 18:16, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm still looking for a reference for the current peal, but when the previous set was discussed the weights were given as hundredweights, quarters and pounds, thus in your first example: 5cwt 3qr 21lb. See "Bells and bell ringing" in volume 12 (1834) of The Musical World, page 23. --217.155.32.221 (talk) 22:08, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * More in Ring of bells, but WP itself can't be used as a source.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 22:26, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * All fixed; thanks for bringing this up!--217.155.32.221 (talk) 23:10, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Bow Bells mileposts
There seems to be a certain number of circular references on the internet relating to the Bow Bells series of mileposts which run down the old turnpike roads A22 London to Eastbourne and A26 Lewes to Uckfield. Sussex archaeological society produced a survey report of Sussex milestones in 1972/1973 edition of their Sussex Industrial History publication which describes the milestones as having 5 bells, the fifth bell not being very clear as they decrease in size from the top J R Spigot (talk) 08:48, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Laurence King
Unfortunately, we don’t appear currently to have an article on this chap,, so I’ve removed the Bluelink and the tag. KJP1 (talk) 06:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC)