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1552 |
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St Helen's was not mentioned in the Edwardian Inventory. |
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1630 |
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Tenor recast (accounts include an entry "Paid the Bell Founder for changing our great bell and new metell added" £7.6.0.) |
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1650 |
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In the 17th century, a small turret was erected. |
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1669 |
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Record of a bell being hung (source: Sperling). |
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1696 |
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On 3 Jun, Vestry minutes recorded an agreement was reached with Thomas Armstrong to take down the bells, wheels and ropes in the Bellfry and deliver them safe and sound into the church, thereafter to have a lease of the said belfry for 61 years. It appears that 4 bells used to hang in a belfry over the gate. In the minutes of 18 Jun, there was a resolution that 3 of the 4 bells delivered to the church by Mr Armstrong shall be sold towards the repair of the church and the best of the four to be kept for the use of the parish. [1] |
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1699 |
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Vestry resolution that the belfry and church be repaired and a bell hung up to give notice of burials. |
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1708 |
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Strype recorded that, in the past, rather than the church having a tower with bells in it, the bells were hung in a poor wooden frame some distance from the church. [2] |
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1714 |
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Paterson notes "but two small bells". |
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1737 |
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Resolution regarding ringing the bell for burials on 7 Jun. |
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1780 |
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On 15 Jun, the Vestry thanked John Smith Esq. For having presented the parish with three new bells and the hanging thereof in the steeple. The bells were cast in 1779/80 by Pack & Chapman. |
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1874 |
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St Martin, Outwich was pulled down and the parish united with that of St Helen. |
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1891 |
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The turret was repaired. |
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1893 |
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The church was reopened on 30 June. |
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1900 |
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Bells rehung. |