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Chartham, St Mary
 Photo: Dickon Love, 2013
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♫ Sound clip of the ring of bells.(Dickon R Love, 28 Dec (but year not noted!)) |
Details of the Bells |
| Bell | Weight (most recent) | (As received 1923) | Diameter | Note | Date | Founder | Canons | Retuned | ||
| ® | Treble | 5-0-11 | 5-0-11 | 29⅞" | C♯ | 1728 | Samuel Knight, Southwark | Conventional | Never | |
| ® | 2 | 5-0-24 | 5-1-20 | 31" | B | 1605 | Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent | Conventional | 1923 Mears & Stainbank | |
| ® | 3 | 6-0-19 | 6-2-4 | 33⁷⁄₁₆" | A | 1605 | Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent | Conventional | 1923 Mears & Stainbank | |
| ® | 4 | 8-2-8 | 8-3-25 | 36⅜" | G♯ | 1605 | Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent | Conventional | 1923 Mears & Stainbank | |
| ® | 5 | 10-1-23 | 10-3-24 | 39¹⁵⁄₁₆" | F♯ | 1605 | Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent | Conventional | 1923 Mears & Stainbank | |
| ® | Tenor | 13-1-25 | 14-0-18 | 43¹⁵⁄₁₆" | E | 1605 | Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent | Conventional | 1923 Mears & Stainbank |
Inscriptions |
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How the bells are tuned |
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History |
| 1552 | Record of 4 bells in the tower. [1] | ||
| 1605 | Bells recast into a ring of 5 by Joseph Hatch. | ||
| 1728 | Bells augmented with a treble by Samuel Knight. | ||
| 1757 | Record of 6 bells in the tower. [2] | ||
| 1923 | Bells 2-6 retuned and rehung by Mears & Stainbank. | ||
| 2009 | The tenor was given a new headstock and was quarter turned. |
| [1] | Item iiij bells with a Wakerell. (Edwardian Inventory, 1552) |
| [2] | The Church, which is a very fair Building of Flint Stones, is in ye Form of a Cross. In ye Tower, wch. is a very handsome One at ye West End of ye Church, and built of ye same Materials, hang Six Tuneable Bells; The Five largest of wch. were made by Joseph Hatch, 1605. The First, or Smallest, by Samuel Knight in 1728; and has ye Names of John Moat, Thomas George, and Thomas Pearce, upon it. (Rev’d Bryan Faussett, 1757) |
Gallery |
In the foreground (l-r) are bells 4, 3 and 2. Photo: Dickon Love, 2013 |
Faces on the canons of the 4th. Photo: Dickon Love, 2013 |
The upstairs ringing room. Photo: Dickon Love, 2013 |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022 Photo: |
Peal Boards |
Photo: Tom Winter, 26 May 2017 |
Photo: Tom Winter, 26 May 2017 |
Elsewhere in the Parish |
| Chartham, St Augustine's Hospital Single bell hung in an open gable |
| Love's Guide to the Church Bells of Kent | Page updated: 8 June 2022 |