- Costs
- £21,264/15/6
- Sponsor Type
- private
- Sponsored By
- John Campbell, The 9th Duke of Argyll, in 1914 Niall Campbell became Honorary Colonel of The 8th Battalion of The Argyll and SutherlandHighlanders and, then personally funded the tower.
The peal of bells was planned before WW1 but after the war "the donors of some of the bells made their gifts as memorials of sons and brothers who were lost in the great conflict". The ten bells were "housed in a temporary shelter, but an appeal is being made for funds to provide a proper belfry tower, where the bells may be 'rung' and not merely 'chimed' ".
- Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information
- The total cost of the ten bells in January 1922, the bells themselves costing £ 2,422.17.6d,added to which was the cost of their lettering, the iron framework, their delivery, temporarymounting, setting and tuning, came to an even then massive
£ 4,276.3.6d, and the building costs of the 126-foot high tower, eventually completed and the bells finally hoisted into place in September 1931, adding another £ 16,988.12 shillings, the total project cost just over £21,000
- Maintenance History
- November 28, 1944-the tower's stonework and windows were damaged when the structure was struck by lightning, the damage only at last repaired in recent years
2007-the peal's chiming mechanism was fully restored and a new cabinet constructed so that all 10 bells can now be 'chimed' from the ground floorby a system of wires and hammers to play hymn tunes, carols etc.