Weald & Downland Museum

The Weald & Downland Museum at Singleton has a single bell hung in a small shed with a spire.
The museum is designed to take old buildings in that were in threat of being demolished. It all began when Crawley was being developed into a new town in the mid 20th C.
The large collection of buildings come from towns and villages across Sussex, and a few from Hampshire, but the object furthest away from its original home is the bell from Suffolk.

The Bells

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Nominal	Note	Founder	Cast	Canon	Hanging
1		28.00"	1122.5 Hz	Db	Miles I Graye	1621	Yes	Full Circle

Recordings of the Bells

Inscriptions

Photographs

1 Bell in Db
The bell was cast in 1621 by Miles I Graye. It has conventional canons, and a fairly peculiar inscription.
Some old bells you'll find various letters inscribed backwards or upside, but to my knowledge, this is the only bell in the county with the letters and words the right way round, but the inscription in reverse. *See inscription section*
It's inscribed using 1.25" block roman capitals.

Crown circumference: 47.00"
Should to lip length: 21.00"

It has characteristics of a typical old style bell with a sharp hum and flat prime. The tierce and Quint and no more that 12 cents sharp.

To display the art of Change Ringing, the bell has all the fittings except a stay and slider.
The bell came from Ipswich, St Helens, and appears to have been part of a ring, or chime, of 2 as shown in Raven's book. The other being ancient and inscribed: Sancte Maria Ora Pro Nobis.

It is hung in a 16thC oak frame with 5.C trusses, arranged in the 3.1 layout. It originally came from Stoughton, St Mary when they were augmented in 2007.

Next to the Stoughton bell shed is the former church of South Wonston, that has a single bell around 11" in diameter; bolted to a metal headstock by a peg; chimed by a lever; and may be cast of bronze.
The church was built of tin and dates back to 1908.

Recording of the bell:

How the bell is tuned in relation to its 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+