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Queenborough, Holy Trinity


Photo: Dickon Love

Details of the Bells

Bell Weight
(most recent)

(Prior to retuning (or rehanging?))
Diameter Note Date Founder Canons Retuned
® Treble 2-2-102-2-2423¹⁄₁₆" G♯ 1911 Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel Conventional 1934 Mears & Stainbank
® 2 3-1-133-1-2124⅛" F♯ 1667 Anthony Bartlett, Whitechapel Conventional 1934 Mears & Stainbank
® 3 3-1-83-2-025½" E 1667 Anthony Bartlett, Whitechapel Conventional 1934 Mears & Stainbank
® 4 3-3-174-0-727¼" D♯ 1667 Anthony Bartlett, Whitechapel Conventional 1934 Mears & Stainbank
® 5 4-2-24-2-2629" C♯ 1667 Anthony Bartlett, Whitechapel Conventional 1934 Mears & Stainbank
® Tenor 5-2-225-2-2231⅞" B 1933 Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel Flat Never

®  - Hung for full circle ringing

Bellframes

Frame Bells Year Maker Material Truss(es) Local
Layout
1 All bells 1911 Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel Cast iron
8.3.A.e
6.1

Inscriptions

How the bells are tuned

Prior to 1934

Bell Weight
(most recent)
DateFounderRetunedFate
Tenor5-3-221722Richard PhelpsNever? Cracked through fire damage.

History

1667 5 bells cast by Anthony Bartlett.
1719 Church was burnt out.
1722 Tenor recast by Richard Phelps
1887 Record of tenor being broken and useless.
1911 Treble added to make 6 by Mears & Stainbank.
1933 Tenor recast by Mears & Stainbank. The bells were rehung in the following year.
1967 Bells made ringable after a long period of silence due to essential work on the tower.
1981 Bells rehung with some new fittings by Whitechapel.

Articles

  • "Holy Trinity Queenborough, Kent", Author unknown (The Ringing World) 6 October 1978
  • The belfry


    The treble is in the foreground.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 1990

    Detail in one of the inscriptions.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    The tenor.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    The treble.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    The frame and all 6 bells.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    The frame and all 6 bells.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    The ringing room


    The ringing room.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    The ringing room.
    Photo: Dickon Love, 2016

    Peal Boards

    Timber Performance Board dated approx. 1935
    06 May 1935: 1260 Minor (2m) (In honour of the Silver Jubilee of HM King George V.)

    Photo: Dickon Love, 28 March 2016

    Timber Performance Board dated approx. 1971
    11 Sept 1971: 5040 Minor (7m) (For the institution of the Rev Alan Duke (Vicar).)

    Photo: Dickon Love, 28 March 2016

    Timber Performance Board dated approx. 1992
    05 Sept 1992: 5040 Surprise Minor (7m) (To celebrate the wedding of Stuart Cox and Emma Cundiff.)

    Photo: Dickon Love, 28 March 2016



    Love's Guide to the Church Bells of Kent Page updated: 1 April 2016