St Margaret Pattens

ST MARGARET PATTENS, EASTCHEAP

Photo DrL 15th Aug 2001

	1 ringing bell and 1 chiming bell
	Tenor: 5½ cwt approx.
	Large Frame: c.1900 Mears & Stainbank.
	Small Frame: c.1700.
	Upstairs ringing room (formerly ground floor)

This is an unusual view of the church taking advantage of the demolition of buildings normally obscuring it.

DETAILS OF THE BELLS

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Note	Cast	Founder
Chiming bell	2½ cwt approx.	23"	B	1624	Thomas Bartlet
Ringing bell	5½ cwt approx.	31½"		1768	Lester & Pack

C.	THOMAS BARTLET MADE ME 1624

R.
	ST MARGARET PATTENS BEN: FORWARD EDWD. FARM TAYLOR CH: WARDENS ST GABRIEL (same line) FENCHURCH CORRAD HARKSEN IOHN SHEPARD CH: WARDENS. 1768. PETER WHATELEY RECTOR.

The inscription on the larger bell is incised.

1552	Record of "one bell in the steple".
1624	Smaller bell cast.
1666	Church destroyed in the Great Fire. The small bell somehow survived it.
1684	Church rebuilt by Wren.
c. 1700	Smaller frame built.
1708	Record of 2 bells.
1768	Larger bell recast.
1824	Record of 2 bells.
c. 1900	Larger bell hung in a new frame with new fittings by Mears & Stainbank.
2001	Building work at the base of the tower necessitated the ringing of the bell to be done on the 1st floor (rather than the ground floor).

This is a 19th century engraving of the church.

David Cawley attends to the bell rope on the ringing bell with the chiming bell in the background. This rope is all that remains from the set that used to ring the bells of St Dunstan in the East.

Photo DrL 1st June, 2001