This is the first of eight posts – one for each bell – noting the inscriptions from the old bell and its replacement.

Mears and Stainbank is now known as The Whitechapel Foundry.

The old treble bell was inscribed:

MEARS AND STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON

THE TREBLE AND 2ND BELL WERE GIVEN

TO COMPLETE THE OCTAVE

BY

R. W. PITT., RECTOR

1908

The new treble bell is inscribed:

REMEMBER BEFORE GOD

PAUL CATTERMOLE

1941-2009