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Holy Trinity Minories, Minories
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The 1711 ring of 3 |
| Bell | Weight (most recent) |
Diameter | Note | Date | Founder | Retuned | Fate |
| Treble (of 3) | 1711 | Richard Phelps | Never | Recast 1724 or 1753 | |||
| 2 (of 3) | 1711 | Richard Phelps | Never | Recast 1724 or 1753 | |||
| Tenor (of 3) | 2¼ cwt approx. | 1711 | Richard Phelps | Never | Recast 1724 or 1753 |
Recasting in 1724 |
| Bell | Weight (most recent) |
Diameter | Note | Date | Founder | Retuned | Fate |
| One of the 3 | 1724 | Unknown | Never | Recast 1753 |
The 1753 ring of 3 |
| Bell | Weight (most recent) |
Diameter | Note | Date | Founder | Retuned | Fate |
| Treble (of 3) | ½ cwt approx. | 16" | C♯ | 1753 | Thomas Lester | Never | Removed 1899, fate unknown |
| 2 (of 3) | ½ cwt approx. | 16" | C | 1753 | Thomas Lester | Never | Removed 1899, fate unknown |
| Tenor (of 3) | ½ cwt approx. | 19" | A | 1753 | Thomas Lester | Never | Removed 1899, fate unknown |
History |
| 1666 | Church escaped the Great Fire. | ||
| 1711 | A new ring of 3 bells was cast by Richard Phelps at a cost of £24. (The old bells were taken to him in 1709.) The tenor was 2¼ cwt. | ||
| 1724 | One of the bells, having become broken, was recast. | ||
| 1734 | On October 10th, 1734, William Laughton and two other ringers rang the bells. They rang 168 sixes with some difficulty, which he wrote about. [1] | ||
| 1753 | Tower built, a bell was sold and 3 new bells were cast and hung. The bells cost £23.19.1. | ||
| 1899 | Church closed and was later demolished. The fate of the bells is unknown. |
| [1] | That is the hardest peal to raise That e'er I met in all my days. The tenor is so very light, Two hundred one quarter is the weight. The ropes were small, - our hands they cut, No sallies in them e'er were put; So with some chalk we made a mark, Or else we'd all been in the dark, But that shewed us whereabouts to catch, And stop in due time at full stretch. But for all that we made ado To keep the ropes from slipping through. (William Laughton, 1734) |
Engravings |
Old engraving of the church. Photo: |
Engraving of the ruins. Photo: DLC collection. |
Not much of the church remains today. One of the walls can be seen here. The church yard is now a park in the foreground. Photo: Dickon R Love, 2004 |
Photographs |
| Love's Guide to the Church Bells of the City of London | Page updated: 13 October 2019 |