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1552 |
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Record of 5 bells. [1] |
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1587 |
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The broken tenor bell was recast by Robert Mott. However it appears that the new bell was not liked and the Vestry resolved that it be taken away. This does not seem to have happened as arguments continued over the following years. [2] |
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1604 |
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The vestry urged Mott's bell be accepted. The old bell was given as 20-14-17 and the new 17-2-22. [3] |
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1620 |
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A new clock was ordered for the tower to strike on one of the bells. [4] |
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1623 |
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Vestry records say that "the steeple ordered to be covered and the bells hung up". [5] |
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1629 |
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The 2nd (of 5) was recast. [6] |
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1662 |
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The Vestry ordered that a sanctus bell be hung in the tower above the other bells. [7] |
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1666 |
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The church and bells were destroyed in the Great Fire. |
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1673 |
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The vestry held at the Tabernacle (this being the temporary church) ordered a bell for it weighing about 1½ cwt and workmen to make a wheel and frame. This remained the only bell for about 100 years. [8] |
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1677 |
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The church was rebuilt with a brick tower of unusual and almost Italian style, of four stages with a timber dome, lantern and spire, crowned with a vane in the form of a key. It was completed in 1687. |
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1708 |
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Record of 1 bell. |
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1772 |
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The present 2 bells were cast. The smaller was hung immediately underneath the wooden spirelet at the top of the small dome above the tower. |
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1824 |
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Record of 2 bells. |
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1889 |
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The church was reopened on 3 Nov. |
| [1] |
In the steple five belles and the sainctes bell. (Edwardian Inventory, 1552) |
| [2] |
30 Apr: The vestry resolved that Robert Mott was to be given the great bell (it being broken) to exchange for "a perfett good bell, and of good sounde, to agree with the reste", to hang it up and to guarantee it for a year and a day." 25 Jun: The vestry resolved to ask Robert Mott to take away the great bell that he hung "for that it was disliked of all the parish generally" and they decreed with him that "yf he had a good and prefect treble, they would have one of him reasonable." 4 Jul: Mott was paid for casting the great bell and for overplus of metal. (Vestry minutes 1587) |
| [3] |
The vestry urged Mott's bell be accepted "because thought tuneable enough" and because "the steeple being old and crazie would surely without damage admit the great bell". (Vestry minutes, 8 Apr 1604) |
| [4] |
The old clock ordered to the top of the steeple because the one on which the clock now striketh is found fault with, being so low that few of the parish can hear it. (Vestry minutes, 21 Mar 1620) |
| [5] |
The steeple ordered to be covered and the bells hung up. (Vestry minutes, 27 Jul 1623) |
| [6] |
The second bell to be new cast and made tuneable like the rest. (Vestry minutes, 26 Jul 1629) |
| [7] |
A saints bell "to be hanged in the steeple over the other bells". (Vestry minutes, 12 Nov 1662) |
| [8] |
(Vestry minutes, 2 Apr 1673) |
Photo: Dickon Love, 9 Jul 2002
