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Number of Bells: 8 Tenor weight: 14 Cwt 3 Qtrs 19 lbs Tenor Note: F Details: Bell Weight Founder Year (Cwt:Qtrs:lbs) Treble 4: 3: 21 Taylor of Loughborough 1999 2 5: 1: 14 Taylor of Loughborough 1999 3 5: 2: 21 Chapman & Mears, London 1784 4 6: 2: 8 Abraham Rudhall I Gloucester 1711 5 7: 1: 6 Abraham Rudhall I Gloucester 1711 6 9: 2: 16 Taylor of Loughborough 1999 7 10:0: 24 Abraham Rudhall I Gloucester 1711 Tenor 14: 3: 19 Thomas Mears of London 1818 The peal is tuned to the Key of F (703 Hz). The old fourth bell of the six, cast by Henry Jordan of Aldgate, London, circa 1440, is now hung as the Clock bell, as it was not suitable for tuning correctly into a major scale. Hence the requirement for three new bells by Taylor of Loughborough, for the Augmentation from 6 to 8 |