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SYDENHAM, St Bartholomew

 
1 bell
Tenor: 8 cwt approx.
Grid Ref. TQ351716
Lewisham District
♫ Sound of the bell

DETAILS OF THE BELLS
Bell Weight Diameter Cast Founder

1

8 cwt approx.

36"

1832

Thomas Mears II

INSCRIPTIONS
1. T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1832
 

INSCRIPTIONS
1831   Commissioners church (2nd Parliamentary Grant) of 1826-31 by Lewis Vulliamy, architect, William Woods, contractor (but work taken over by Thomas Smith) at a cost of £9357. It is Gothic with tower.
1832   Bell cast and hung in the new tower by Thomas Mears.
1832 30th August Church consecrated by Dr Murray, the Bishop of Rochester
1855   Parish created from St Mary the Virgin, Lewisham.
1857   Chancel added.
1877

March

 The Beckenham Journal suggests that a fund was started to put a ring of bells in the tower.  This clearly come to fruitition.
An effort is being made which we trust may be as successful as in Penge, to endow this Church with a peal of Bells.  Various sums have alreadt been promised or received, and The London and South Western Bank have agreed to receive subscriptions to the account of the Sydenham Bells.