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| Details of the Present Bells
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| No. | Note | Dia. | Inscription | Weight | Founder Date 1
| F
| 2' 37/8"
| RING OUT THE FALSE RING IN THE TRUE
| 4-3-0
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 2
| E
| 2' 5"
| RING IN THE LOVE OF TRUTH AND RIGHT | RING IN THE COMMON LOVE OF GOOD 5-0-25
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 3
| D
| 2' 67/8"
| RING OUT THE DARKNESS OF THE LAND | RING IN THE CHRIST THAT IS TO BE 5-3-15
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 4
| C
| 2' 83/8"
| HE PRAYETH BEST WHO LOVETH BEST | ALL THINGS BOTH GREAT AND SMALL 6-3-20
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 5
| Bb
| 2' 11½"
| DISDAIN ONE MUST THE FOOLISH WORKMAN | WHO BRINGS NO THOUGHT TO WHAT HE TRIES 8-0-14
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 6
| A
| 3' 13/8"
| FAITHFUL WORK ADORNS THE FREEMAN | HONOUR KINGS RECEIVE FOR SPLENDOUR 8-3-18
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 7
| G
| 3' 4¼"
| WHEN PEOPLE UNRESTRAINED WOULD LIVE | THE PUBLIC WEAL NO MORE CAN THRIVE 10-1-8
| Mears and Stainbank |
1904 8
| F
| 3' 91/8"
| FOR THE HONOUR OF GOD AND FOR THE USE OF | THIS VILLAGE THESE BELLS WERE RAISED BY WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER A.D. 1904 14-1-25
| Mears and Stainbank | 1904 |
| The inscriptions on bells 1 to 3 are taken from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Ring Out, Wild Bells. Tennyson went to Cambridge where he met Arthur Henry Hallam whose early death was to prompt Tennyson to write his great elegy of mourning, In Memoriam. The poem was written in 1833 and published in 1850. |
| The ring of eight bells in this tower was tuned and rehung with new fittings in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston, Croydon.
Rededicated 16 September 1951
This restoration commemorates the centenary of the birth of |
| This information has been copied from a framed document hanging in the ringing chamber except for bell dimensions which were taken from a report by Whitechapel Bellfoundry following their inspection in 2001.
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