Highbrook, All Saints

Highbrook has a chime of 8 bells, hung for stationary chiming in a north-facing tower. It also has an additional ninth bell that serves as a sharp 3rd.
The church was built in 1884 to Carpenter & Ingelow's designs, and cost £6,500. The tower has a shingled broach spire, and closely resembles that at Worth, St Nicholas.

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Nominal	Note	Founder	Cast	Canon	Hanging
1	5-2-16 cwt	28.00"	1548 Hz	G	Gillett & Co	1888	Doncaster	Dead
2	5-3-7 cwt	29.00"	1450.5 Hz	F#	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead
3	6-2-23 cwt	32.00"	1302.5 Hz	E	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead
4	6-3-21 cwt	31.00"	1175.5 Hz	D	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead
5	7-2-7 cwt	33.50"	1042 Hz	C	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead
6	8-1-0 cwt	35.50"	983 Hz	B	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead
7	10-0-14 cwt	38.00"	878 Hz	A	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead
8	11-3-14 cwt	41.00"	779 Hz	G	Gillett & Co	1887	Doncaster	Dead

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Nominal	Note	Founder	Date	Canon	Hanging
Service	6-0-0 cwt	29.50"	1401.5 Hz	F	Gillett & Co	1888	Doncaster	Full Circle

Inscriptions

Photographs

About the Bells

8 Bells, with 3#, 11-3-14 in G
Gillett & Co. of Croydon supplied 9 bells, along with a clock and chime barrel in 1888. The bells were cast over the years 1887 & 1888, and only the service bell, which serves as a 3#, was hung for full circle.

Colonel Robert Stephenson Clarke, a member of the British Army, and the late owner of the Borde Hill estate was the donor of the bells who gave them as a gift. He bought the estate with the sole intention to create a larger and improved garden. He increased the size of the land from its initial 8 acres to 21,000 within fifty years.
He died at the age of 86 on November 3rd, 1948, and his funeral took place at Highbrook church.

The bells
The front seven bells carry the same inscription featuring the foundry name, and a floral band around the top of the waist. The tenor is inscribed the same with an additional dedication to Clarke on the waist. Elphick gives an interesting entry for service bell, showing that its dated 1885. They were all inscribed in a gothic revival font, and cast with Doncaster canons.

Robert Stephenson Clarke

The tenor is most interesting for it had a large fin of metal inside the bell, and a casting flaw in the same place on the crown. This was formed due to a break in the core (inner mould) during the casting process.

I have not yet inspected these bells for myself, so most of the comments here come from external sources and photos I've seen.
More info to come in due course.

Inscriptions:

*Underlined text is around the inscription band*

1	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
2	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
3	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
4	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
5	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
6	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
7	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON 1887 ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛
8	CAST BY GILLETT & CO CROYDON ⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛⚛ THIS PEAL OF BELLS WAS THE GIFT OF STEPHENSON CLARKE AND HIS WIFE 1887
Service	1885 GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO