Weights, Notes and Inscriptions

The Ringing Peal

(back eight ex St. Peter’s Walworth SE17)

Bell Founder Date Inscription Weight Note
Treble Whitechapel 2004 GIVEN BY THE

MIDDLESEX C.A. & LONDON D.G.

TO CELEBRATE THE

GUILD CENTENARY YEAR

2003

 3cwt 3qtr 13lb G#
2nd Whitechapel 2004

PRAISE HIM ON THE LOUD CYMBALS

 4cwt 0qtr 0lb F#
3rd Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 4cwt 2qtr 1lb E
4th Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 5cwt 0qtr 18lb D#
5th Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 5cwt 1qtr 27lb C#
6th Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 6cwt 0qtr 5lb B
7th Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 6cwt 3qtr 22lb A
8th Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 8cwt 0qtr 6lb G#
9th Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824 8cwt 3qtr 2lb F#
Tenor Thomas Mears 1824 T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1824

THE FIRST STONE OF ST PETERS CHURCH LAID 2 JUNE 1823.

ARTHUR CYRIL ONSLOW MA RECTOR OF THE PARISH

BUILT UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

THO. ENGLAND & V GARLAND – FIRST CHURCH WARDENS

JOHN CLUTTON – CLERK TO THE TRUSTEES

 12cwt 3qtr 25lb E

These bells are hung in a two tier cast iron and galvanised steel frame, designed and installed by Eayre & Smith Ltd. The cast iron framesides were second-hand from the previous ring at St Mary’s Rotherhithe.

The Clock Chime

1st Qtr Llwellins & James 1919 LLEWELLINS & JAMES LTD, BRISTOL, 1919

THANKSGIVING

S.N. SEDGWICK – RECTOR

H WILSON – CHURCHWARDENS

W.G. MAFFEY

 6cwt approx. B
2nd Qtr G Mears 1863 G MEARS – FOUNDERS 1863

REVD EDWARD BLICK – RECTOR

E G DANNAL JW BARRETT – CHURCHWARDENS

R S HAWKES – VESTRY CLERK

 12cwt approx. G#
Hour T Mears 1850 16cwt 3qtr 20lb E

These bells are hung dead on a grillage designed and installed by Eayre & Smith Ltd., located above the ringing peal and sound-control floor. The first quarter is ex Bishopstoke, Hampshire, and the second quarter is the old 7th from Rotherhithe.The Hour has hung in St Anne’s, since the great fire of 1850.