6 bells Tenor: 10-1-7 in A flat Grid Ref. TQ528593 Tonbridge District Frame: 2000 Whitechapel Retuning: Never subsequently retuned Ground floor PEALS Local Tower Web Site

Bell

Weight

Diameter

Cast

Founder

1	4-0-1	253/4"	2000	Whitechapel
2	4-1-27	28"	1887	Mears & Stainbank
3	5-0-15	291/2"	2000	Whitechapel
4	5-3-15	31"	2000	Whitechapel
5	7-2-6	34"	2000	Whitechapel
6	10-1-7	381/8"	1975	Whitechapel

1.
	TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF JOAN DICKINSON		AD 2000 WHITECHAPEL
	BRIAN RAYNOR DAWN HALLAM MARGARET LIDBETTER	} READERS
2.	SMITH & SONS CLERKENWELL LONDON 1887
3.
	TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF JOAN DICKINSON LAURIE YOUNG - TREASURER KEVIN GRAFTON - ORGANIST		AD 2000 WHITECHAPEL
	SUSAN REID VIVIENNE BENFORD	} PASTORAL ASSISTANTS
4.
	TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF JOAN DICKINSON REVD. PATRICIA HOPKINS - VICAR		AD 2000 WHITECHAPEL
	CLIVE SOUTHGATE DAVID GIBERT	}CHURCHWARDENS
5.
	TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF JOAN DICKINSON GIVEN BY HER FAMILY		AD 2000 WHITECHAPEL
	KENNETH DICKINSON VICTORIA CARTER	JUDITH CARTER JAMES CARTER

6.	¡ IH à MADE à ME THIS à BELL à WAS à GIVEN à BY à ELIZABETH à POLHILL à &
	HEARE à PLACED à AGVST à E à 7 à 1674 à AGED à 60 à YEARES ¡ ¡ CH ¡ ¡  ¡ Y ¡ ¡
	REV. F.C. BUNCH M.A. E. G. J. RUNTING G. FLAVELL } CHURCHWARDENS	RECAST 19 75 WHITECHAPEL

1180-90		Tower built. The upper part of the tower and the spire were added in the 17th Century.
1622		A bell was cast or recast by Thomas Bartlett, ultimately becoming the treble of 2.
1674		A bell was cast or recast by John and Christopher Hodson, ultimately becoming the tenor of 2. Elizabeth Polhill was the widow of David Polhill, the donor of the Communion Plate in 1666. The family were landowners here for several centuries.
1887		The treble, which was cracked and useless, was recast by Mears & Stainbank.
1975		The tenor was recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
2000		The two bells were refurbished and four new bells were added as 1,3,4,5 to form a six.
2000	23rd Oct.	The bells were rung for the first time.
2000	26th Nov.	The new ring of 6 bells was dedicated by The Rt Revd Brian Smith, Bishop of Tonbridge.

PHOTOGRAPH

The old two bells on the floor of the ringing room. The tenor is in the foreground.

One of the new bells rings out beside one of the older bells.