CITY
OF CANTERBURY |
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DETAILS OF THE BELLS |
Bell Weight Diameter Cast Founder
1
3-1-22
27"
1903
Samuel B. Goslin
2
4-3-22
29
3/16"1637
John Palmar I
3
6-1-18
32
7/8"1395-1420
William Woodewarde
4
8-1-20
35
1/4"c. 1325
William le Belyetere
INSCRIPTIONS |
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| S. B. GOSLIN. FOUNDER.
LONDON RECAST. EASTER. 1903 |
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| 2. | IOHN v LEEv
SENIOR v AND v WILLIAM v
BALDV KE v
CHVRCH v WARDENS v 1637 v |
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| IOHN v PALMER v MADE v MEE | |||
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| (The NC in SANCTA and N inNOBIS are upside down) |
HISTORY |
c.1325 |
Present tenor cast. |
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1395-1420 |
Present 3rd cast. |
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1637 |
Present 2nd cast. The bells were rehung in a new 2-tier frame for 4 bells: 2 above and 2 below (with the treble pit empty). |
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c.1850 |
Bells overhauled during the 19th Century. |
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1903 |
Bell cast by Samuel Goslin for St Margaret's, Canterbury. |
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1959 |
The 3 bells were last run by the King's School for the visit of the Archbishop. |
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1968 |
June |
Bells taken out by Mears & Stainbank. |
1968 |
November |
The treble of St Margaret's, Canterbury was given to the church and taken down to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry by the KCACR. |
1969 |
December |
The 4 bells were tuned, refitted with stationary Ellacombe fittings & rehung by Whitechapel. They were hung in the upper 2 pits of the 4-bell frame. This was the first job done by the KCACR in conjunction with the foundry under Harry Parkes' direction. |
PHOTOGRAPHS |
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| Taken out by Bill Theobald in June, 1968, the Belyetere tenor is on its way to Mears & Stainbank. | Rehung, and a "tight fit", the old three plus treble from St Margaret's in the top tier of the 4-bell frame. |
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The original 3 bells lying in the church
yard (l-r 3,2,1). 18th June, 1968 |
