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No.

Note

DETAILS of the BELLS

Weight

 cwt     qrs    lbs

1

F#

MALMESBURIENSES ILLUSTRES
ALDHELMUS - SANCTUS, EPISCOPUS, ABBAS
ATHELSTAN - REX ANGLORUM
GULIELMUS MALMESBURIAE - HISTORICUS
THOMES HOBBES - PHILOSOPHUS
1951
GILLETT & JOHNSTON
CROYDON

4

1

18

2

E#

GLORIA CHRISTI - REX
ARTHUR BEAGHEN - VICAR
CHARLES BRADSHAW                    MAJOR CLARENCE INGRAM
1951
GILLETT & JOHNSTON
CROYDON

4

1

26

3

D#

COMMEMORATIO GRATIA
ALL WHO BY GIFT AND WILLING SERVICE
EXTENDED THE PEAL TO 8 BELLS
GILLETT & JOHNSTON
FOUNDERS
CROYDON

4

2

0

4

C#

SANCTE GEORGEI ORA PRO NOBIS

4

2

4

5

B

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO 1610

5

1

22

6

A#

A.R. 1739
RECAST 1896
LLEWELLINS & JAMES BRISTOL
GEORGE WINDSOR TUCKER, B.A. VICAR
RICHARD HUNGERFORD POLLEN, BART 
                             JOHN GARLICK LYNE

7

1

18

7

G#

ANNO DO MI NI 1640
LABORAMUS ET OREMUS
RECAST A. D. 1910
CHARLES D.H. McMILLAN, M.A. VICAR
RICHARD HUNGERFORD POLLEN, BART                                     HENRY FARRANT
MEARS & STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON

8

2

8

8

F#

WILL COR
JOHN HARVEY & THOS. KAYNES & ROB HUCKINGS
CHURCHWARDENS 1703
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO
RECAST 1910
CHARLES D.H. McMILLAN, M.A. VICAR
RICHARD HUNGERFORD POLLEN, BART
                                    HENRY FARRANT
MEARS & STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON

11

0

8

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