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    THE ORGAN

 Built by Bishop & Son of Ipswich and London at a cost of £250 in 1909 and opened by Mr. 0. A. Clark, then Mayor of Bury St, Edmunds. It replaced a barrel organ, presented by Rev. Henry and Mrs. Adams somewhere about 1815 which stood until 1852 on the gallery which spanned the west end of the nave above the present organ. This barrel organ was altered about 1860, the barrels and crank being superseded by a keyboard and pedals. There is no record of there ever having been orchestral accompaniment to singing at Bardwell.











THE BELLS

There are six large bells, rung from a chamber above the clergy vestry.

The earliest existing is the treble, dated 1719, but there were “4 great
bells” here in 1547, and “six bells with their frames in very good order” in
1706.

They are:—

1. The Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1719

2. Pach and Chapman of London fecit 1770

3. William Eaton churchwarden. W. Dobson fecit 1820

4.  Thomas Spindluff and Charles Phillips. C.W. T. Newman fecit 1833

5.  Tho. Newman fecit. Roger Cooke, Robert Bugg, C.W. 173?

6.  John Brett, Churchwarden; Tho. Osborn Downham fecit 1780

The Tenor G (No. 6) is C 13 cwt.

No. 4 bell was recast in 1935.





























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Acknowledgements: All photographs are from the collection of A.Upson(2004) and used with the kind permission of Canon Philip Oliver