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ADISHAM, Holy Innocents |
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DETAILS OF THE BELLS |
Bell Weight Diameter Cast Founder 1
4½ cwt approx.
28"
1670
Thomas Palmar I
2
5½ cwt approx.
31¼"
1670
Thomas Palmar I
3
6½ cwt approx.
32⅝"
1670
Thomas Palmar I
4
8¼ cwt approx.
35⅜"
1418-1440
John Walgrave
| 1. |
T
· PALMAR
· MADE
· MEE
· 1670
· PETER
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DVMOVLI
·ž D
· D
· RECTOR
· OF
· ADISHAM |
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| 2. |
T ·
PALMAR ·
MADE ·
MEE ·
1670 ·
PETER ·
DVMOVLI
· D
· D
· RECTOR
· OF
· ADISHAM |
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| 3. |
THOMAS · PALMAR
· MADE
· MEE
· 1670
· PETER
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DVMOVLI
· D D
· RECTOR
· OF
· ADISHAM |
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HISTORY |
1418-1440
Current tenor cast.
1670
Current front 3 cast.
1757 Rev'd Bryan Faussett wrote:
This Church is a very fair, ‘tho not large, Building, of Flints. It consists of a Chancel and Body, both cover’d with Lead – and a South and North Transept, coverd with Tyle. The Tower stands in ye Middle. In it hang 4 Bells, with ye following Inscriptions.
1. Thomas Palmer made Me. Peter Du Moulin, D.D. Rectr. of Adisham 1670.
2. Thomas Palmer made Me. Peter Du Moulin, D.D. Rectr. of Adisham 1670.
3. Thomas Palmer made Me. Peter Du Moulin, D.D. Rectr. of Adisham 1670.
4. Magdalena Campana Celis Melodia Nomen.1880
Bells rehung and frame strengthened.
1957
December Mears & Stainbank inspected the tower and bells. They stated that the bells were out of tune and the 3rd was of conspicuously poor tone. They added “The fittings have been renewed in more recent times but apart from the wheels they are not in serviceable condition. The frame, probably late 17th century is riddled with beetle, worm and decay and is quite unserviceable; various struts and supports have been added from time to time, but very few are doing any good at all."
1958
RWM Clouston reported that bells l, 3, 4 swung E/W in a straight line with the tenor in the centre, with the 2nd swinging N/S in a long pit at right angles. By that time all the bells were being 'clocked'. He dates the frame c1600 or so. Side frame trusses being braced king-post with long heads. "The joints of the side frames look fairly good, but the joints in the pit ends in the top and bottom sills are poor. The frame was much clamped with iron when the bells were rehung c1880. The support of the frame via brackets is extremely ricketty."
1958
3 of the bells were lowered to the ground for safety leaving a single bell rehung dead by Mears for chiming.
1959
Nicholas Davies recorded that it was then about 50 years since the bells were last rung (i.e. c.1900). Those who had rung there told him and David Cawley that artificial light always had to be brought for ringing. There are no windows in the former ringing chamber. The layout of the frame was similar to Westwell. He also notes that the bells are in an approximately diatonic scale. 1980
John Taylor & Co. estimated for restoring and rehanging the bells in a cast iron frame for 6, with alternatives for ringing from the ground floor and enabling the bells to be brought lower in the tower. 1983
The 3 old bells were lifted back to the safety of the tower by the Kent County Association of Change Ringers.
1998
Frame sides from Sheldwich given to the church for a project to augment the ring to 6 with 2 trebles by Whitechapel. These were subsequently returned and there are now currently no plans to restore the bells.
