Swingfield

SWINGFIELD, St Peter

	1 bell (tenor of a former ring of 3)
	Tenor: 7 cwt approx. in B
	Grid Ref. TR215429
	Canterbury District
	Tuned: Never subsequently retuned
	Frame: 1896 locally made

Ground floor

DETAILS OF THE BELL

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Pitch	Cast	Founder
1	7 cwt approx.	34Ľ"	B	1696	John Wood

1.	IOHN RICHARDS W 1696 BY ME IW

Bell

Weight

Diameter

Pitch

Cast

Founder

1 (of 3)

4ľ cwt approx.

c.29"

?D sharp

1696

John Wood

2 (of 3)

5Ľ cwt approx.

c.31"

?C sharp

1696

John Wood

1.	IW IR 1696

2.	IW IR 1696

1552

Record of 3 bells in the tower.

1696

Bells recast by John Wood of Bishopsgate. This may have been his only known complete ring?

1758

Rev'd Bryan Faussett wrote:
This Church is but Small, and consists only of The Chancell and the Body. At The West End is a pretty handsome Tower in which hang 3 Bells, thus inscribed.
1. I.W. – I.R. 1696.
2. I.W. – I.R. 1696.
3 John Richards W. 1696

c.1796

The 2 trebles were sold.

1799

Edward Hasted wrote:
The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, consists of one isle and one chancel, having a square tower, with a beacon turret at the west end, in which is one bell.

1896

Remaining bell was rehung in old fittings in a new frame, locally made.

1971

Bell rehung on new fittings (for ringing, but with no stay or slider) in the old frame by Whitechapel.

2000

Church made redundant.