St. Mary's, Walthamstow

[Philip Denton]

1, 2, 3 by John Warner & Sons, 1896
  4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 by Pack & Chapman, 1778
  10 by Charles & George Mears, 1852.
   
  The weights are as follows:
   
  1.  6-0-15         6.   7-3-13
  2.  6-1-4           7.   9-2-1
  3.  6-1-20         8.   11-0-19
  4.  6-1-27         9.   14-0-13
  5.  7-0-25         10. 19-0-5
   
  Formerly a ring of 8 from 1778; the tenor recast in 1852.
   
  In 1896, the treble was recast, 2 further trebles added and all were re-hung in a new cast iron frame. The weights given above are on the the notice in the tower, but the same ones appear in Deedes & Walters' Essex book of 1909, so were probably those given by Warner.
   
  The bells were re-hung on ball bearings in the existing frame by Mears & Stainbank in 1947 or 1948.
   
  John Taylor & Co. re-hung the 9th in the early 1960s.
   
  This information is from my own recent visit, the tower website, the EACR Handbook of 2004, and Deedes & Walters' book of 1909.
   
  PD.

 		
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