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Sellindge
 

Sellindge, St Mary


  • 6 bells hung for full circle ringing
  • Tenor: 8-2-19 in A♭.
  • Grid Ref: TR093384
  • Rung from: Ground Floor
  • Frame: 1906 Samuel B Goslin, made of timber
  • Denomination: Church of England
    Diocese (Anglican): Canterbury
    Archdeaconry (Anglican): Ashford
  • Kent County Association of Change Ringers District: Ashford
  • Building Listed Grade: I Click for Heritage details.
  • Peals rung at the tower

  • Sound clip of the ring of bells.(Mark Chittenden-Pile)

Details of the Bells

Bell Weight
(most recent)
Diameter Note Date Founder Canons Retuned
® Treble 3-1-525" F 1909 Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel 1959 Mears & Stainbank
® 2 3-3-226" E♭ 1909 Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel 1959 Mears & Stainbank
® 3 4-0-2428⅝" D♭ 1909 Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel 1959 Mears & Stainbank
® 4 5-0-2430" C 1723 Samuel Knight, Southwark 1959 Mears & Stainbank
® 5 6-3-1333⅝" B♭ 1723 Samuel Knight, Southwark 1959 Mears & Stainbank
® Tenor 8-2-1937" A♭ 1783 Chapman & Mears, Whitechapel 1959 Mears & Stainbank

®  - Hung for full circle ringing

Prior to 1909

Bell Weight
(most recent)
DiameterDateFounderRetunedFate
Treble (of 5)3-2-2227½"1906Samuel B. GoslinNeverRecast 1909
2nd (of 5)4-1-1029"1906Samuel B. GoslinNeverRecast 1909

Prior to 1906

Bell DiameterDateFounderRetunedFate
Treble (of 5)27½"1723Samuel KnightNeverRecast 1906
2nd (of 5)29"1723Samuel KnightNeverRecast 1906

History

1552 Record of 4 bells. [1]
1723 Bells recast into a ring of 5 by Samuel Knight.
1759 Record of 5 bells in the tower. [2]
1799 Hasted does not mention bells.
1906 2 trebles (of 5) recast by Samuel Goslin and all the bells (unsatisfactorily) rehung in a new frame for 6.
1909 The 2 trebles (of 5) were again recast, this time by Mears & Stainbank, who cast another treble to make 6.
1959 Bells retuned and rehung in the strengthened frame by Mears & Stainbank.
[1] First in the stepell iiij bells. Item a hand bell. (Edwardian Inventory, 1552)
[2] "This Church consists of The Great and South Chancells, The Body, and a South Isle. The Tower stands at ye West End, and is cap’t with a Shingled low Spire. In it hang 5 Bells, all made by Sam. Knight, 1723." (Rev’d Bryan Faussett, 1759)

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