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The web site of John Taylor of Loughborough:
St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
And a note on the campanologist WIlliam Wooding Starmer who died in December 1927:
Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly:
Some further information:
King’s College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military ArchivesSurvey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975
Name
BAYLY, Sir Lewis (1857-1938), Admiral
Service biography
Joined RN 1870; HMS ENCOUNTER, Ashanti 1873; expedition against pirates, River Congo 1875; HMS AGINCOURT, Egyptian War 1882; commanding destroyers, HMS ATTENTIVE, Home Fleet 1907-1908; President, RN War College 1908-1911; commanding 1 Battle Cruiser Sqn 1911-1912; 3 Battle Sqn 1913-1914; World War I 1914-1918; commanding 1 Battle Sqn 1914-1915; President, RN College Greenwich 1915; Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches, Queenstown Command, Ireland 1915-1919; retired 1919Papers
BRITISH LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, LONDON: The papers of AF John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, include correspondence 1914-1918 (ref: Add MS 49009); IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of Alexander Barrie, who was commissioned to write a biography of Bayly, contain extensive correspondence and files relating to Bayly’s World War I command, including; letters from United States Naval officers serving in the Queenstown Command 1917-1919; armistice telegrams and general orders, coast of Ireland, 11 Nov 1918; Bayly’s statement to the Admiralty on the operations and success of the joint RN-United States Navy Queenstown Command, Dec 1918; two letters from AF David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty of the north Sea and Brooksby, to Bayly 1914-1915; extensive correspondence with Adm Gordon Campbell 1916-1930; letter from AF Sir Hedworth Meux 1915; two letters from AF Sir Roger Keyes 1920; file on loss of HMS FORMIDABLE 1914, including correspondence with Admiralty, 1914-1919, concerning the inquiry into its sinking; typescript account of Queenstown Command 1916-1919; including an account of the role of naval intelligence in the suppression of the Easter Rising, Dublin 1916; typescript account by Charles Dix of service as Flag Lt to Bayly 1911-1916 (written in 1935); correspondence and ephemera relating to post-war reunions of the Queenstown Association; papers relating to ‘Q’ Ships, including correspondence of Adm Gordon Campbell; midshipman and later service records 1870-1899; papers of Adm Sir Dudley de Chair (ref: P38-41) include a single letter from Bayly 1916Publications
: Pull together: The memoirs of Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1939); Edward Keble Chatterton, Danger zone: The story of the Queenstown command (Rich & Cowan, London, 1934)Admiral Bayly (extreme right) on a visit to the United States in February 1921 and seen here with the US Admiral Simms who had commanded the American fleet in Queenstown:
Lewis Bayly died on 16 May 1938. His body was cremated after a simple service at the Side Chapel at St. Michaels.
An account of his funeral:
May 31,1938.
Dear Roger:
I have just had a long letter from Miss Voysey telling me about Admiral Bayly’s death and funeral. I thought you might be interested in her description of the services and give you an extract of her letter verbatim:
“The Admiralty wanted to give him a full Naval funeral, but I said no, it was so unlike him. So when I took him down to the side Chapel at St. Michaels at 7 a.m. Wednesday – the sun was shining and I felt so happy about him. The Admiralty took charge at the church and he went back to his old service, amongst all his Admirals, for his last journey. The wreath was lovely. I asked for no flowers, but said I would be proud to have some from his American friends, so they were mostly from you all, and the Admiralty. Only one wreath I put next to him, the Queenstown Association’s. The others went to the Cenotaph with an officer in uniform. The Queenstown wreath I took with me to Golders Green where I scattered his ashes out in the open in the Garden of Remembrance. I placed this wreath on them.”
I thought I might send this extract to some of the people who have written me and with whom I communicated about his death. Before doing so, however, I should appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Yours ever,
J. S. MORGAN, JR.Roger Williams, Esq.,
Newport News Shipbuilding Co.,
Newport News, Virginia.St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
And here is the man himself: Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, commander of the fleet off of the Irish coast during the Great War:
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
Praxiteles recently received a very interesting brochure written by W. F. Browne (nephew of Bishop Robert browne who completed Cobh Cathedral) and published about 1916 on the carillion which had been installed in Cobh Cathedral.
It contains some useful historical material: “Exhaustive enquiries were made and expert advice was obtained , and finally the order was placed with Messrs. John Taylor and Sons, of Loughborough….. the casting of the bells was very interesting and teh writer saw some of the bells for Cove being cast at Loughborough…Different manufacturers use different proportions but a usual portion is sixteen parts copper to five of tin. While tin melts at a heat of 440 degrees, it is necessary to have 1995 degrees of heat to melt copper. A great cauldron, placed high above the a glowing furnace, contained the molten copper which seethed and bubbled like boiling water. The glare was so dazzling that everyone had to wear yellow goggles. The tin which was to be added to the copper was in big solid blocs like bricks. So intense was the heat that before the block of tin had reached the surface of the liquid metal it had completely melted and disappeared. The liquid was carefully stirred with enormous long rods until properly mixed. The opening at the bottom of the cauldron was merely blocked with clay…..As the molten metal flowed into the mould, men held tapers to small openings that dotted the outer casing of the mould at various points, in order to burn away gas generated in the molten metal. After 48 hours the mould is removed, and then the bell is placed upside down on a turn table and accurately tuned, enormous tuning forks being at hand to give the absolutely correct pitch. When the chime was completed, it was tested and passed as satisfactory by Mr. W.W. Starmer of Tunbridge Wells, one of the greatest living experts on bells, who throughout gave valuable advice and assistance. Then came the question of getting the bells over [to Cobh]. It was war time, and the submarines were very active and exacting a heavy toll. Sir Lewis Bayly, the Admiral commanding the Irish Station, was keenly interested in the bells and offered to have the ship in which they were to come specially escorted. A week or two in advance the writer telephoned to the Admiral to remind him of his promise. His answer was characteristic: “All right, I’ll watch and you’ll pray”…At length the bells were in position in the tower…and all was ready for inauguration. The carilloneur of the famous belfry in Bruges, Monsieur Antoine Nauwelaerts, came specially from belgium….M. Nauwelaerts displayed the most marvellous mastery of the chimes…playing Schubert’s “Ave Maria”, beethoven’s “Sonata Pathétique”, Mendellsohn’s “Spring Song”.
Here is Mr. Bird’s webpage:
Some interesting views of the Abbey of Fontgombault in France:
@apelles wrote:
St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.
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[/align:hha8j9uj]The Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, was the first Catholic Church erected in Dublin following the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829. Its predecessor at 30 Hardwicke Street was opened in 1816 by Fr. Charles Aylmer SJ, the first public chapel of the restored Society of Jesus. The four founders of the Church of SFX – Peter Kenny, Bartholomew Esmonde, Charles Aylmer and Archbishop Daniel Murray – received their early education in the school for the classics founded in 1750 by the Jesuits in Saul’s Court, off Fishamble St.With a design based on that of the church of the Gesu in Rome, the mother church of the Jesuits, Gardiner St church opened to the faithful on 3 May 1832, when Archbishop Murray celebrated the first Mass on a temporary altar. The foundation stone had been laid on 2 July 1829 by Fr. Charles Aylmer. On 12 February 1835, the church was solemnly blessed by the Archbishop in presence of 14 bishops and large congregation. The church when opened was 135’ long. It was extended in 1838 (at which time new High Altar was under construction in Rome), and in 1850 the sanctuary was extended by 25’, and a semicircular apse built which moved High Altar further back. The High Altar, 25’ high, is of an enriched classical Corinthian Order with 4 green scagliola columns. It was designed and assembled in Rome by Fr. B. Esmonde, while he was based at the Gesu, and who with Mr John B Keane was the architect of the church. It consists of many precious stones and marbles which include lapis lazuli in the drum over tabernacle with malachite inlay.
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[/align:hha8j9uj]St Francis Xavier preaching in Japan ( oil on canvas) Over the high altar, by Bernardo Celantano. It is strange that the figrue of St Francis is over the high altar, as the crucifix is always the altar centre piece. however the Jesuits in the community overcame the dilemma by having Xavier pointing to the crucifix, thus appeasing the liturgists and allowing Fr Esmonde, the architect of the church and Superior, to have his way!
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[/align:hha8j9uj]Furnishings:
· Italinate portico is of Portland stone.
· Pediment sculptures placed over portico in Fr. Nicholas Walsh’s time (1877-84) – Sacred Heart, St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier – attributed to Terence Farrell RHA
· Pulpit of cast-iron with monogram of the Society of Jesus ‘HIS’ and gilded portrait heads of ‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’ and ‘Sorrowful Mother of Christ’
· The organ has been rebuilt several times, always in original organ case. Theoriginal instrument was made by Flight & Robson (London) 1836. Jesuits purchased it for 800 guineas.
· Sculptures in Transepts: ‘Jesus in Garden of Olives’, made by French sculptor Jacques Augustin Dieudonne in 1848
· ‘Madonna and Child’ by Roman sculptor Ignazio Jacometti in 1881.
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[/align:hha8j9uj]· Four oil paintings in nave attributed to Pietro Gagliardi (Rome) and were hung in church in Fr. Nicholas Walsh’s time as Rector (1877-84)
Restorations 1877 (new roof); 1896 electricity installed (lit by gaslight before); 1932 redecorated. 1970 – extensive redecoration under Brendan Ellis, to comply with the liturgical norms and spirit of Vatican II, and a new altar table was erected in Cuban mahogany by William Hicks.
Other minor restorations and structural works done in 1974, 1983,1989 and 1990s.
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St Francis Xavier – stained glass 1906, Earley of Dublin.[/align:hha8j9uj]Many of the precious marbled used in this altar are salvage from the Basilica of St Paul outside the Walls following the disastrous fire of 1828.
And here is the matching responsory from Tomas Luis de Victoria’s Tenebrae for the event depicted in the painting:
