Handcross, All Saints

Handcross has a Single bell hung in a North facing timber A Frame.
It was built in 1885 as a mission church, and consecrated in 1915 as a parish church.

The Bell

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Nominal	Note	Founder	Cast	Canon	Hanging
1	c0-2-0 cwt	c12.00"	2106.5	C	James Barwell	c1903	Peg	Swing

Recordings of the Bells

Inscriptions

Photographs

1 Bell, in C
Elphick states the bell he saw in 1962 included the words "STAINBANK FOUNDERS" in the inscription, the rest of it couldn't be seen through his binoculars. This was obviously a Whitechapel bell from c1885.
Since George visited, this bell was replaced with the present day one.

The present bell was cast by James Barwell of Birmingham, and features no more than the founders mark on the waist.
Elphick show the "only" example of a confirmed Barwell bells in Sussex is the Chailey Heritage School, which carries the same inscription. Could this bell have been transferred to Handcross, and why?
The bell is hung on a cast iron headstock, attached by a Peg argent.
It is chimed by the means of a rope, connected to an iron lever. The bell is hung on ball bearings which don't appear to be overly rusted!
A 30 rung ladder would be required to access the bell.

Visited with Ollie Watson 18/03/2022

Recording of the bell:

How the bell is tuned in relation to the nominal, using Simpson's theory.

Key [measured in cents]:
-99 ~ -90 -89 ~ -80 -79 ~ -70 -69 ~ -60 -59 ~ -50 -49 ~ -40 -39 ~ -30 -29 ~ -20 -19 ~ -10 -9 ~ -0
0 ~ 9 10 ~ 19 20 ~ 29 30 ~ 39 40 ~ 49 50 ~ 59 60 ~ 69 70 ~ 79 80 ~ 89 90 ~ 99+