The treble, second and tenor are inscribed by G. Mears and dated 1859, but the tenor, cast in 1670 by Bryan(?) Eldridge of Chertsey (maybe in itself a recasting of an earlier Chertsey Abbey bell), was recast by Mears at the expense of Angela Burdett-Coutts, of the famous banking family, and by her specially named “Shoshannim“. No. 3 was cast by R. Phelps in London in 1730 and is inscribed to two benefactors, Arthur Onslow and Thomas Scawen. No. 4 is by Lester and Pack of London it is now used for ringing the curfew from Michaelmas to Lady Day (29 September to 25 March).

Manning and Bray’s “The History and Antiquities of Surrey” (c.1811) records the fact that the curfew was rung, as now, at 8pm on weekdays but also on Sunday mornings at 8am on the largest (tenor) bell. The practice of the 8am ringing of the tenor curfew has been discontinued, but the 8pm week-night ringing is still exactly as described in the 1811 book with the exception that we now use the 8cwt Lester and Pack bell from 1856 rather than the 10cwt Abbey bell. This is primarily to avoid over-use of this precious medieval bell. No curfew is now rung on Saturday nights. It also states that “William Eldridge made mee” was the inscription on the 1670 tenor.

About the fifth it is likely that it is a bell from the ruined Chertsey Abbey cast in 1310 and recast circa 1380 following the collapse of the Abbey tower: it is inscribed in crowned Lombardic capitals +Ora menta pia pro nobis Virgo Maria. This bell did perhaps toll for Henry VI when in 1471 his murdered corpse was borne up river from London for temporary burial at Chertsey prior to removal to Windsor by Richard III. No. 6 was founded in 1712 by William Eldridge, a Chertsey founder, whose house is next to The Swan inn opposite the church and who had a foundry in Chertsey, possibly in Guildford Street: the seventh, the “Armada bell” was made in 1588 by Robert Mot of London.