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HOO ST WERBURGH, St Werburgh

8 bells
Tenor 15-3-6 in E flat
Grid Ref. TQ783718
Rochester District
Frame: 1995 Built by Waterman Offshore to the design of Whitechapel
Retuning: Whitechapel 1995
Anticlockwise
Ground Floor
PEALS
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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

1.  

DONATED BY
THE TOWER CAPTAIN
ALLAN VIDGEON
AND HIS WIFE JESSIE

DAVID LOW- VICAR
LEN SMITH
ROGER CARPENTER
} CHURCHWARDENS

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WHITECHAPEL
2.   

DONATED BY
NORMAN VIDGEON
IN MEMORY OF
HIS FATHER AND BROTHER,
THOMAS AND ROBERT
FARMERS

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WHITECHAPEL
3. GEORGE PEACE & JOHN GRAVES CHURCH WARDENS v T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1825
4.
¡ fleur.jpg (998 bytes) IOHN ‡ HODSON ‡ MADE ‡ ME ‡ 1662 ‡ WILLIAM ‡ COSENS
‡ IOHN ‡ PEETT fleur.jpg (998 bytes) CHVRCH ‡ WARDENS ‡ W O H ‡ fleur.jpg (998 bytes)fleur.jpg (998 bytes)
5. Flower.jpg (800 bytes) BY Flower.jpg (800 bytes)ME Flower.jpg (800 bytes) GYLES REVE Flower.jpg (800 bytes) BELL Flower.jpg (800 bytes) FOVBackwardsN.jpg (750 bytes)DER Flower.jpg (800 bytes) 1588
(Above each rose is a crown. On the waist is a dragon twice and the crowned rose twice.)
6.
WILLIAM HATCH MADE ME BackwardsN.jpg (750 bytes)C HC CW WHATCH.JPG (1031 bytes) 1641
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.