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LOOSE, All Saints

3 bells
Tenor 8-3-21 in G#
Grid Ref. TQ757521
Maidstone District
Pre-reformation frame (timber braced, centre post)
Retuning: Never subsequently retuned
Anticlockwise
Ground Floor

DETAILS OF THE BELLS
Bell Weight Diameter Cast Founder

1

5½ cwt approx

30¾"

Mid 16th Cent.

John Harding

2

7 cwt approx.

32½"

1603

Joseph Hatch

3

8-3-21

36¾"

1952

Mears & Stainbank

INSCRIPTIONS
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The tenor was formerly inscribed:
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PREVIOUS BELLS
Bell Supplied Weight Scrapping Weight Diameter Cast Founder

3

1615

Joseph Hatch

3

1629

Joseph Hatch

3

8-1-6

9-0-24

1635

Joseph Hatch

3

? 8-3-21

1886

Mears & Stainbank

HISTORY

c.1550

Present trebles cast.

1603

Present 2nd cast.

1615

Tenor recast by Joseph Hatch.

1629

Tenor again recast by Joseph Hatch.

1635

Tenor recast for the 3rd time by Joseph Hatch. The church registers say it weighed 930li (8-1-6). When Whitechapel received it in 1886 ot weighed 9-0-24.

1704

Bells rehung by John Broomfield.

1886

Tenor again recast.

1952

The cracked tenor was recast by Mears & Stainbank who also rehung the other bells.