The Bells

                                  Diameter                    Weight                                              Cast by                                                                         Date

 Tenor 40" 11-12-24 Joanna Hille 1441

 7th 

36"

7-3-16

Henry Pleasant

1701

 6th 

33"

6-1-18

Thomas Mears

Recast: Whitechapel Bell Foundry

1803

1983

 5th  31" 5-1-14

Richard Hille

Between 1423-1440
 4th  30" 5-1-4

Thomas Mears

1803
 3rd  29" 5-0-20

Thomas Mears

1803
 2nd  27" 4-2-19 Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1997
 Treble 26" 4-0-25 Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1997

            

The Tenor and 7th to 3rd bells came to St Martins as a gift from the redundant church of St Nicholas, Colchester.

 

            The 2nd bell was presented by Electronic Office Equipment P.L.C. to commemorate the founding of the company by John and Joan Rolison.

 

            The Treble bell was presented by Ronald Brown in Memory of his wife Peggy.

 

            A further bell  27½" Diameter housed at the back of the church came from St Mary's Dunton, it was recast from two bells in 1712.