Thorrington - St Mary Magdelene

6 bells, 9-0-22  in G  Access by ladder

Practice Night: Please contact the Tower Captain to check for practices

Sunday ringing: Please contact the Tower Captain in advance

Contact

Email: thorrington@eacr.org.uk

OS ref: TM098196

Toilet facilities

Church website: www.thorringtonchurch.org

listen to the bells

Peals rung: http://www.cccbr.org.uk/felstead/tbid.php?tid=4999

Bell

Weight

Note

Diameter

Date

Founder

Inscription

Treble

3-2-4

E

26.00"

1902

Mears & Stainbank

Has an emblem of King Edward VII. There is an inscription around the sound-bow saying "generously hung by W J Nevard"

On the waist of the bell:”I AM THE SIXTH, THE FIRST DID RING, THE YEAR OF CROWNING EDWARD KING A.D. 1902. A.CALDECOTT-RECTOR. J.F.J.GRANDJEAN-CURATE. C.H.CHISNALL, F.D.GIRLING,  CHURCHWARDENS”

2

3-3-26

D

27.00"

1732

Thomas Gardiner

THOU=GARDINER * SUDBURY * FECIT * 1732 ***

3

4-1-26

C

29.00"

1732

Thomas Gardiner

THOU= GARDINER * SUDBURY * FECIT ** 1732 **

4

5-1-11

B

30.00"

1860

John Warner & Sons

Has an emblem cast into it. THIS BELL WAS GIVEN BY THE REVd RICHARD DUFFIELD-RECTOR-IN 1860. CAST BY JOHN WARNER AND SONS, LONDON, 1860. ROYAL ARMS AND PATENT

5

9-0-8

A

36.00"

1440€3

William Chamberlain

One of the oldest bells in the NE DistrictSIT ROMAN DOMINI BENEDICTUM

Tenor

9-0-22

G

37.25"

1732

Thomas Gardiner

THOU= GARDINER * SUDBURY * FECIT ** 1732 *

The bells were hung in a wooden frame until the tenor bell broke its gudgeon pin in about 1931. In 1933 the bells were quarter-turned, tuned & rehung lower in plain bearings in a new steel frame by Alfred Bowell, Bellfounder Ipswich