[Bell Historians] St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey

[bill at hibberts.co.uk]

I visited this tower yesterday for an inspection. The heaviest bell of the
chime of three is by Phelps, 1721, and was presumably part of the peal on
which the 10,080 of Plain Bob Major was rung in 1728.

 

In Bell News, vol 2 p 159 in a list of early long lengths, J W Snowdon gives
the tenor weight as 14 cwt. In J A Trollope’s history of the College Youths
he says ‘the bells were a light ring which were broken up in 1829’. I
estimate the weight of the surviving bell at around 8 ¼ cwt, i.e. it was
probably the 6th or 7th of the peal.

 

Does anyone know of the source of Snowdon’s tenor weight of 14 cwt?

 

Regards,

 

Bill H

 

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