ST MATTHEW, FRIDAY STREET |
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DETAILS OF FORMER BELL |
Bell Weight Diameter
Note Cast Founder 1 3½ cwt approx. 26½" E flat 1704
Samuel Newton & John Peele
INSCRIPTIONS |
| Disused. | WM u SWANN u DAVID u ABBOT u CH WARDENS 1704 |
S NEWTON u I u PEELE MADE ME |
HISTORY |
| 1552 | Record of 5 bells and a sanctus bell. ("Item in the stepell five belles. Item a saunce bell at the quyer dore") |
| 1553-4 | Churchwardens accounts record expenditure for four baldricks for the bells. |
| 1554-5 | Churchwardens accounts record the purchase of a little bell weighing 2 cwt 48 lbs for £4.6d. |
| 1556-7 | Churchwardens accounts record the mending of the thrid bell that was "loosse in the stoke". |
| 1568-9 | A bell was recast using new additional metal at a cost of £3.6.6. |
| 1578-9 | Churchwardens accounts record payment "for tyles to mende the church whear the saintes bell did hange" of 24s. |
| 1567-8 | Churchwardens accounts record payment on a rope for the saunce bell. |
| 1624-5 | Churchwardens accounts record payments for hanging the bells. |
| 1666 | Church and bells destroyed in the Great Fire. |
| 1666-7 | Churchwardens accounts record that £2.17.0 was received for old lead and belmettell. They also paid the bell founder "for new casting and adding metell to our great bell as appears by acquittance, £9.13.0. |
| 1685 | Church rebuilt. |
| 1693 | Record of 1 bell in inventory of 10th Nov. |
| 1704 | Bell recast by Newton and Peele for £24.15.0 (paid 6th Oct). |
| 1708 | Record of 1 bell. |
| 1824 | Record of 1 bell. |
| 1887 | Church pulled down when the parish was united with St Vedast, Foster Lane. The bell was transferred to St Vedast and hung dead in the SW corner of its timber frame. |
| 1941 | St Vedast church was bombed and the bells were damaged. The Friday St bell was scrapped for its metal. |
