Bekesbourne, St Peter
Photo: Dickon Love, Jan 2007 |
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Details of the Bells |
Bell | Weight (most recent) | (As supplied) | Diameter | Note | Date | Founder | Canons | Retuned | ||
® | Treble | 3-2-22 | 4-0-4 | 25¾" | F | 1890 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Removed | 2005 Whitechapel | |
® | 2 | 4-0-15 | 4-2-15 | 27⅛" | E♭ | 1890 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Removed | 2005 Whitechapel | |
® | 3 | 4-1-11 | 4-3-8 | 29" | D | 1884 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Removed | 2005 Whitechapel | |
® | 4 | 5-1-15 | 6-0-0 | 30⅞" | C | 1884 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Removed | 2005 Whitechapel | |
® | 5 | 5-3-6 | 6-1-16 | 32¾" | B♭ | 1884 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Removed | 2005 Whitechapel | |
® | Tenor | 7-2-16 | 8-1-23½ | 35⅞" | A♭ | 1884 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Removed | 2005 Whitechapel |
Bellframes |
Position |
Frame | Bells | Year | Maker | Material | Truss(es) | Local Layout | |||
Lower tier | 1 | 2,3,4,5,6 | 1884 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Timber | 5 |
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Upper tier | 2 | 1 | Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel | Timber |
Inscriptions |
Prior to 1884 |
Bell | Weight (most recent) | Date | Founder | Retuned | Fate | |
Treble (of 2) | 2-1-14 | ? | Unknown | Never | Broken up 1884 | |
Tenor (of 2) | 2-3-16 | ? | Unknown | Never | Broken up 1884 |
History |
1884 | 4 bells cast by Mears & Stainbank to replace a pair of inscriptionless bells. They show a variety of punctation, possible due to the introduction of new lettering following the death of Robert Stainbank the year before. | ||
1890 | 2 trebles added by Mears & Stainbank to make 6. Additional framework was added to facilitate this, with the treble hung in an upper tier above the second. | ||
c | 1923 | Bells believed to have been rehung by Mears & Stainbank. | |
2005 | Bells retuned by Whitechapel. | ||
2006 | Bells rehung in the existing frame (which was strengthened) by Whites of Appleton. |
Correspondence with John Taylor |
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