All Saints, Margaret Street

Bell	Weight	Diameter	Cast	Note	Founder	Fate
3	28-0-17	53⁷/8"	1858	E flat	John Warner & Sons	Broken up 1971

1789		St Margaret's chapel was built.
1849-59		Present church built, William Butterfield architect. This was the successor to the chapel.
1858		3 bells cast and hung in a new frame for 5 bells in the tower by John Warner and Sons. Of these bells, Lord Grimthorpe (to whose specification they were cast) said, "Bells sound better in a large chamber than a small one. Anyone who has heard the Doncaster bells will hardly believe that the three bells of Al Saints, Margaret Street, are repetitions by the same founder of the 1st, 4th and tenor of Doncaster. But Doncaster bell chamber is 23 ft square, and Margaret Street not more than 14, or just two fifths of the area." The frame was a lowside oak frame (the missing bells being apparently D and G, muscailly the 2nd and 6th giving 1,2,4,6,8.
1895	*22nd Sept*	Church reopened after restoration.
1958		Mears & Stainbank inspected and recommended part rehanging with new ironwork and chiming hammers, either electrically or manually operated.
1965		Mears & Stainbank recommended recasting the three bells into a chime of eight, tenor 6Ľ cwt in C.
1966		Bells inspected by David Cawley. He reported that none of the bells appeared ever to have been rung full circle probably due to fears for the security of this tall slender brick tower with a spire 200 feet high. Only the treble had any appreciable soundow wear. This bell had angular canons and had a cast-in corwn staple; the two larger had Lord Grimthorpe's Doncaster head with independent staples.
1971		Tenor broken up in the tower by Mears & Stainbank, who rehung the other two "dead" with lever-clappers.

1.	CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1858.
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2.	CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1858
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