ꓕ |
1 |
|
0-2-21 | 14" |
G |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
Sharp 2 |
|
0-2-22 | 14½" |
F♯ |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
2 |
|
0-2-21 | 15" |
F |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
3 |
|
0-3-25 | 15½" |
E |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
4 |
|
1-1-5 | 17" |
D |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
Sharp 5 |
|
1-2-11 | 18" |
C♯ |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
5 |
|
1-2-24 | 19" |
C |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
6 |
|
1-3-17 | 20" |
B |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
Sharp 7 |
|
2-0-17 | 21" |
A♯ |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
7 |
|
2-1-26 | 22" |
A |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
8 |
|
3-0-9 | 24" |
G |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
Sharp 9 |
|
3-2-6 | 25" |
F♯ |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
9 |
|
3-3-3 | 26" |
F |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
10 |
|
3-3-17 | 27" |
E |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
11 |
|
4-3-10 | 29" |
D |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
ꓕ |
12 |
|
6-0-10 | 32" |
C |
1963 |
Mears & Stainbank, Whitechapel |
|
Never |
|
1552 |
|
Record of 3 bells that used to hang in the old church across the road from the present one. |
|
1813 |
-14 |
Church rebuilt by Joseph Gwilt. |
|
1839 |
-41 |
Church rebuilt by John Brown of Norwich, architect. |
|
1840 |
Dec |
3 new bells were supplied by Mears & Stainbank with clappers, fittings and frame at the new church. |
|
1841 |
April |
The 3 old church bells were taken by Mears & Stainbank in part exchange for the work they had done the previous year. Weights of two of them were listed as 5-2-12 and 6-2-4. |
|
1874 |
|
3 more treble bells were added by Mears & Stainbank to create a minor 6. |
|
1875 |
|
Church remodelled by James Brooks, architect. |
|
1886 |
19th Feb |
Whitechapel Daybook records new treble and tenor supplied with two clappers and 2 pairs of gudgeons and shields, £110.15.6. The bells hung in a FIVE tier frame! |
|
1895 |
-6 |
The 8 bells were rehung. |
|
1956 |
10th Mar |
The bells became very awkward to ring and were undermining the fabric of the church. They were last rung (it is believed) on this date. |
|
1963 |
|
The bells were recast into a chime of 16 in memory of Mildred Hunter who died at Lee in 1962. The bells were hung from the old frame. A clavier room was set up in the old ringing room where old peal boards are still preserved. [3] |
|
1967 |
|
William Hughes from Whitechapel Bell Foundry wrote to David Cawley giving his recollections of the work at Lee. [1] |
|
1989 |
|
On 7 Apr, the Ringing World published a letter from Ernie Rowe, recalling the final ringing on the 8 bells. [2] |
[1] |
They were a ring of three with a tenor of C10, cast at this foundry in 1840. In 1874 we provided a double 2-tier frame for 8 and added three smaller ones to make six, and then finally in 1886 we made a new treble and tenor to make the peal of eight. The whole installation was a stupid one I fear as the peal was much too heavy for the tower and caused considerable damage. In 1963 we broke them up and cast a most musical chime of 16 bells, a diatonic twelve in C with four semi-tones. (Hughes, W A (Letter to David Cawley, 13 Jun 1967)) |
[2] |
The last time these were rung as an eight was, according to my tower book, on 10th March 1956 at a London County meeting when, during the first touch, GrandsireTriples, the 2nd wheel collapsed and the remains collapsed onto the back six. Whether they were rung again I doubt, but there was a sequel when, years later, I was given the task of removing these bells. They were a front six in three tiers with the 7th above the 8th swinging the other way (similar to those at Camberwell). A ringer whose name I now forget but who was, so he claimed, a person of some means, told me he had offered to defray the cost of recasting the ring into a lighter one. This however, was turned down by the Vicar, who wanted nothing to do with practices, peals and the inevitable complaints. Later I installed a chime of 16, as all are now aware. (Rowe, E (The Ringing World, 7 Apr 1989)) |
[3] |
Faculty application: Lee, Saint Margaret: installing 16-chime electrically controlled bells (London Metropolitan Archives, 1963 DS/F/1963/091B]) |