St Mary's Church, Mildenhall

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St Mary's Church, Mildenhall
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St Mary's Church, Mildenhall
St Mary's Church, Mildenhall
52°20′34.04″N0°30′33.05″E / 52.3427889°N 0.5091806°E / 52.3427889; 0.5091806 Coordinates: 52°20′34.04″N0°30′33.05″E / 52.3427889°N 0.5091806°E / 52.3427889; 0.5091806
Location Mildenhall, Suffolk
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Website mildenhallanglicanchurches.org
History
Dedication St Mary
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade I listed
Specifications
Bells10
Tenor bell weight16 long cwt 3 qr 23 lb; 1,899 lb or 861 kg
Administration
Parish Mildenhall
Deanery Sudbury
Archdeaconry Suffolk
Diocese Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

St Mary's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England [1] in Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Contents

History

The church is mostly 14th century. Simon Jenkins awarded the church 4 stars in his 'England's Thousand Best Churches'. [2]

Memorials

Parish status

The Parish of Mildenhall is part of the Mildenhall Team Ministry, along with the Parishes of:

Bells

The church has a ring of 10 bells with the largest 8 bells cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry by Mears & Stainbank between 1887 and 1913. The ring was augmented to 10 with addition of 2 new trebles in 1946 cast by Gillett & Johnston in celebration of peace for the end of the World War II. The bells hang in steel & cast iron frame made by Mears & Stainbank and installed at the same time as the bells 4 to 9 were rehung in 1914. The tower is affiliated to the Suffolk Guild of Ringers. [3]

Bells of St Mary's Mildenhall [4]
Bell DateNote Diameter Founder Weight
long measure lb kg
Treble1946G25.75 in (65.4 cm) Gillett & Johnston 4 long cwt 1 qr 21 lb497225
2nd1946F26.50 in (67.3 cm) Gillett & Johnston 4 long cwt 3 qr  6 lb538244
3rd1887Eb28.50 in (72.4 cm) Mears & Stainbank 5 long cwt 1 qr 21 lb609276
4th1913D30.00 in (76.2 cm) Mears & Stainbank 5 long cwt 1 qr 27 lb615279
5th1913C31.75 in (80.6 cm) Mears & Stainbank 5 long cwt 3 qr  2 lb646293
6th1913Bb34.25 in (87.0 cm) Mears & Stainbank 6 long cwt 3 qr  0 lb756343
7th1913Ab37.50 in (95.3 cm) Mears & Stainbank 8 long cwt 0 qr 20 lb916415
8th1913G39.00 in (99.1 cm) Mears & Stainbank 9 long cwt 0 qr 18 lb1,026465
9th1913F42.50 in (108.0 cm) Mears & Stainbank 12 long cwt 0 qr  7 lb1,351613
Tenor1887Eb48.50 in (123.2 cm) Mears & Stainbank 16 long cwt 3 qr 23 lb1,899861

Organ

The church has a two manual pipe organ dating from 1865 by Father Henry Willis. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ The Buildings of England: Suffolk: Nikolaus Pevsner.
  2. ↑ Simon Jenkins, English's Thousand Best Churches, Penguin 2009, ISBN   978-0-14-103930-5
  3. ↑ "The Suffolk Guild of Ringers, Mildenhall". www.suffolkbells.org.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Dove Details". dove.cccbr.org.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "The National Pipe Organ Register - NPOR".
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