HOO ST WERBURGH, St Werburgh |
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DETAILS OF THE BELLS |
Bell Weight Diameter Cast Founder
1
5-2-23
29¾"
1995
Whitechapel
2
6-0-2
30½"
1995
Whitechapel
3
5-2-27
32¼"
1825
Thomas Mears II
4
7-1-18
34¼"
1662
John Hodson
5
7-1-2
36¾"
1588
Giles Reve
6
10-1-11
39½"
1641
William Hatch
7
13-1-4
43¾"
1781
William Chapman
8
15-3-6
47¼"
1738
Thomas Gardiner
INSCRIPTIONS |
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| 3. | GEORGE PEACE & JOHN GRAVES CHURCH WARDENS v T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1825 | ||||||||||||||
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| (Above each rose is a crown. On the waist is a dragon twice and the crowned rose twice.) | |||||||||||||||
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| 7. | SAMUEL SMITH & THOMAS WICKENS CH. WARDENS WM CHAPMAN OF LONDON FECIT 1781 | ||||||||||||||
| 8. | THOMAS + GARDINER + MADE + ME + SVDBURY + SUFFOLK + + 1738 + + + | ||||||||||||||
HISTORY |
1588
Present 5th cast.
1641
Present 6th cast.
1662
Present 4th cast.
1738
Present tenor cast.
1781
Present 7th cast.
1825
Treble added to make 6 by Thomas Mears.
1913
Bells rehung on new steel headstocks by Alfred Bowell.
1913 3 Nov
To rehanging the six bells £80. To sex new chiming hammers & fixing £3. to six best be ropes £4. Total £87. Paid cq on a/c £50 10 Nov 1913. cq.on a/c £30 2 July 1914. cq. £7 25 May 1915.1995
2 trebles added by Whitechapel. Bells retuned and rehung in a new anticlockwise frame.