East Grinstead, St Mary
About the Bells
1 Bell, in F# (& sanctus)
East Grinstead, St Mary has a single bell hung in a West facing turret. The West end of the church was completed in 1912 and the bells were bought a year earlier in preparation.
There are two bells at St Mary's: 1 swing chime bell used to call people to church and a sancus bell or service bell which is traditionally rung 3 times when the bread and wine is held up.
The calling bell was cast by the Loughborough bell foundry John Taylor & Co and is rung using a wooden full wheel. There are no stays or sliders and the rope below is way to short to be rung full circle. Elphick states that this bell was chimed using a full wheel made from iron fixed to a cranked iron stock. This wheel must have been changed over for a new wooden one during the restoration of. During the restoration, the wheel and rope was replaced and the calling bell was retuned.
Today for health and safety reasons, I do not posses any of my own photographs of this bell as a 70 rung ladder or a cherry picker would be required. However, Ian Stone, a generous churchwarden from St Mary has provided me with some photographs of the bell! All photos below are from him including the sanctus bell.
Restoration was carried out to the turret at the same time of the bells due to cracking in the brickwork.
The bell is fixed to a wooden headstock using a button or flange canon. This can just about be seen in the photo.
The bell swings from North to South in a wooden frame.
To get into the turret, one is to climb through a hinged door on the louvres.
The sanctus bell is hung dead and chimed using a similar clapper to Lowfield Heath's clock bell. There is a small loop of metal a rope is connected to on the shaft and when pulled the clapper hits the inside of the bell.
During the restoration, nothing else but this loop was renovated on.
The is no data for the inscription on this bell as of yet.
An 86 rung ladder would be required.
The bells was also cast by John Taylor & Co and is connected to a beam with a button canon.
The bell hangs in a fleche in the middle of the church roof.
Both bells are rung with a Red, White and blue sallied rope.
The initials W.W.S on the bells stand for William Wooding Starmer
The photographs of the bells were taken from a cherry picker.
East Grinstead, St Mary has a single bell hung in a West facing turret. The West end of the church was completed in 1912 and the bells were bought a year earlier in preparation.
There are two bells at St Mary's: 1 swing chime bell used to call people to church and a sancus bell or service bell which is traditionally rung 3 times when the bread and wine is held up.
The calling bell was cast by the Loughborough bell foundry John Taylor & Co and is rung using a wooden full wheel. There are no stays or sliders and the rope below is way to short to be rung full circle. Elphick states that this bell was chimed using a full wheel made from iron fixed to a cranked iron stock. This wheel must have been changed over for a new wooden one during the restoration of. During the restoration, the wheel and rope was replaced and the calling bell was retuned.
Today for health and safety reasons, I do not posses any of my own photographs of this bell as a 70 rung ladder or a cherry picker would be required. However, Ian Stone, a generous churchwarden from St Mary has provided me with some photographs of the bell! All photos below are from him including the sanctus bell.
Restoration was carried out to the turret at the same time of the bells due to cracking in the brickwork.
The bell is fixed to a wooden headstock using a button or flange canon. This can just about be seen in the photo.
The bell swings from North to South in a wooden frame.
To get into the turret, one is to climb through a hinged door on the louvres.
The sanctus bell is hung dead and chimed using a similar clapper to Lowfield Heath's clock bell. There is a small loop of metal a rope is connected to on the shaft and when pulled the clapper hits the inside of the bell.
During the restoration, nothing else but this loop was renovated on.
The is no data for the inscription on this bell as of yet.
An 86 rung ladder would be required.
The bells was also cast by John Taylor & Co and is connected to a beam with a button canon.
The bell hangs in a fleche in the middle of the church roof.
Both bells are rung with a Red, White and blue sallied rope.
The initials W.W.S on the bells stand for William Wooding Starmer
The photographs of the bells were taken from a cherry picker.
Inscriptions:
1 |
ↈↈↈↈↈ ▩▩▩▩▩▩ 1911 W.W.S CAMPANIS PERITO |
Sanctus |
ↈↈↈↈↈ ▩▩▩▩▩▩ 1911 W.W.S CAMPANIS PERITO |
Latin Translation:
1: CAMPANIS PERITO - Bells expert
1: CAMPANIS PERITO - Bells expert
ↈ = Fig. LXIII, b
▩ = Fig. LXIII, c
▩ = Fig. LXIII, c
