West Leake St Helena

Bells

Bell turret The bells

There are two bells in an open turret:

  Inscription Size Weight
1

THOMAS HEDDERLY FOUNDER NOTTM 1762

RECAST 1920
BY
SIR ARTHUR ERNEST BLAKE K.B.E.
AND HIS WIFE, FLORENCE EMILY

 21" 1.3.23
2

BRYAN WYLDE, C.W: THOMAS HEDDERLY

FOUNDER Nottm 1758

RECAST 1920
BY
SIR ARTHUR ERNEST BLAKE K.B.E.
AND HIS WIFE, FLORENCE EMILY

 23" 2.1.22

Hung for swing chiming from metal headstocks with levers.

These two bells by Taylors replace two old bells with the same principal inscriptions by Thomas I Hedderly. The weights of the old bells were 1.3.1 and 2.0.10. Both of these old bells had been rehung by Taylors in 1858 with all new fittings.

A brass plaque below the west window records the work on the bells in 1920:

THE BELLS OF THIS
CHURCH WERE RE-CAST
AND RE-FITTED IN 1920
BY
SIR ARTHUR ERNEST BLAKE, K.B.E.,
and his Wife FLORENCE EMILY,
in commemoration
of the 25th Anniversary of
their marriage. June 18th 1895.

There are two other plaques relating to the bell ropes:

BELL ROPES & SALLIES
DONATED OCTOBER 1998
BY MARGARET HILL
IN MEMORY OF HER PARENTS
RALPH & DORIS ALLISON
WHO LIVED & FARMED IN
WEST LEAKE FOR MANY YEARS

These bell ropes were kindly
donated to St. Helena’s by
Ellis ropes Ltd
in Memory of Mr Alf Ellis
June 13th 2010