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Chartham, St Mary


Photo: Dickon Love, 2013

  • 6 bells hung for full circle ringing
  • Tenor: 13-1-25 in E.
  • Grid Ref: TR106550
  • Rung from: Upstairs Ringing Room
  • Frame: 1923 Mears & Stainbank timber
  • Denomination: Church of England
    Diocese (Anglican): Canterbury
    Archdeaconry (Anglican): Canterbury
  • Kent County Association of Change Ringers District: Canterbury
  • Building Listed Grade: I Click for Heritage details.
  • Peals rung at the tower

  • 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 5-0-115-0-1129⅞" C♯ 1728 Samuel Knight, Southwark Conventional Never
® 2 5-0-245-1-2031" B 1605 Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent Conventional 1923 Mears & Stainbank
® 3 6-0-196-2-433⁷⁄₁₆" A 1605 Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent Conventional 1923 Mears & Stainbank
® 4 8-2-88-3-2536⅜" G♯ 1605 Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent Conventional 1923 Mears & Stainbank
® 5 10-1-2310-3-2439¹⁵⁄₁₆" F♯ 1605 Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent Conventional 1923 Mears & Stainbank
® Tenor 13-1-2514-0-1843¹⁵⁄₁₆" E 1605 Joseph Hatch, Ulcombe, Kent Conventional 1923 Mears & Stainbank

®  - Hung for full circle ringing

Inscriptions

How the bells are tuned

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
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Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022
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Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022
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Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022
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Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022
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Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022
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Dickon R Love, 16 May 2022
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Peal Boards

Framed card Performance Board dated approx. 1936
15 Aug 1936: 5040 Minor (3m) (The first peal on the bells.)

Photo: Tom Winter, 26 May 2017

Timber Performance Board dated approx. 1948
14 Feb 1948: 5040 Plain Bob Minor

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