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1552 |
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Record of 5 large bells and a sanctus. [1] |
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1553 |
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The ringers rang a "great peal" for Mary Tudor as she processed up from the Tower and through the City. [2] |
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1585 |
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The tenor bell was recast by "Master Walter" for £9.9.0. [3] |
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1588 |
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Murford the Smith was paid for a new dapper for the tenor bell. [4] |
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1666 |
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The church was destroyed in the Great Fire.The church received for old iron £2 9s 6d, for three tons of lead £26 0s 0d and dust of bell metal £1 16s 6d. [5] |
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1668 |
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A bell was cast by Anthony Bartlett to be the sanctus bell. |
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1686 |
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The church was reopened, having been rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. |
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1692 |
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A large bell was cast by James Bartlett to be the service bell. |
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1696 |
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The Vestry resolved that it would cost double the price to ring the great bell for another parish. [6] |
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1714 |
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Paterson noted that there was no peal of bells in the church. [7] |
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1716 |
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The tenor was rehung by M Jones. [8] |
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1824 |
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Two bells were noted in the church. [9] |
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1868 |
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The church was demolished for the widening of Gracechurch St. The parish was merged with that of All Hallows, Lombard St. The land was sold for £24,000 which was used to build St Benet's, Mile End Road. The two bells were transferred to this church. |
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1895 |
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The large bell at St Benet's Mile End Road was recast at Whitechapel which noted that it weighed 18-3-7. [10] |
[1] |
In the steple v grete belles and a sawnce bell and the clocke chyme and dyall (Edwardian Inventory, 1552) |
[2] |
(Churchwarden Accounts) |
[3] |
Paid to Master Walter for casting the great bell £9 9s 0d, for carrying the great bell 2s 0d and for mending the hanger of the great bell 5s 6d (Churchwarden Accounts 1585/6) |
[4] |
(Churchwarden Accounts 1588/9) |
[5] |
(One Greate Booke of Accounts With Clasps and Bosses, Harold F Phillips) |
[6] |
The great bell may not be rung for another parish without paying double 7s 0d (Churchwardens accounts 1696/7) |
[7] |
[The church] is now a large, stately, and proper Parish Church; but there are no new Monuments, Galleries, Peal of Bells, nor Organ in it. ("Pietas Londinensis Or the Present Ecclesiastical State of London", James Paterson AM, 1714) |
[8] |
Paid to M Jones to new hanging of the great bell £10 0s 0d (Churchwardens accounts 1716/7) |
[9] |
No bells. () |
[10] |
Recasting of old bell of 19-1-9 gross (18-3-7 net) from St.Benet, Stepney [i.e. the large bell from St.Benet’s, Gracechurch Street] (Whitechapel Daybook, 30 Nov 1895) |