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MONKTON, St Mary Magdalene

Photo RCO 2007
3 bells
Tenor 5-0-3 in B
Grid Ref. TR279653
Canterbury District
Frame: 1911 John Taylor & Co. for 4 bells.
Tuning: 1911 John Taylor & Co.
Upstairs Ringing Room
The bells are ringable, but there is no lighting in the ringing room, and there are holes in the floor between the ringers and the bells.

DETAILS OF THE BELLS

Bell

 Weight Diameter Cast Founder

1

3-1-22

27¼"

1633

Joseph Hatch

2

3-2-13

28½"

1661

Thomas Palmer I

3

5-0-3

32"

1615

Joseph Hatch

INSCRIPTIONS
1.

io∫eph hatch made me M P C W

   1633
 
2. H P I P T P 1661
 
3. io∫eph hatch made me 1615
 
 

EARLIER BELL

Bell

 Cast Founder Fate

4 of 4

1661

Thomas Palmer I

Scrapped in the 19th Century
4.

T P MADE ME 1661

W W

 CW

T   R
 
 

HISTORY

1615

3rd (of 4) cast by Joseph Hatch.

1633

Treble (of 4) cast by Joseph Hatch.

1661

2nd and tenor (of 4) cast by Thomas Palmar.
1800 Edward Hasted reported the 4 bells in the tower:
The church, which is exempted from the archdeacon, is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen; it consists at present of only one isle and one chancel, having a square tower at the west end, in which is a very antient spiral staircase of wood. There are four bells in it. The body of it was antiently larger than it is now, consisting of two isles, part of the end of the north isle being still to be seen, and the arches between the two isles still remaining in the wall; at present it consists of but one isle and a chancel.

1887

Stahlschmidt noted that there were only 3 bells in the tower, the tenor having gone.

1911

The bells were tuned and rehung in a new iron frame by John Taylor for 4 bells.