The Bell was cast in London in 1841 when the tower was first built. Weighing 3 cwt – or 152.407 kg – and 23.625 inches (600.075 mm) in diameter, it is a single bell in G+13 hung for ‘swing chiming’.
It was made by Thomas Mears II, who was master founder of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry from 1810 to 1844. His father, Thomas Mears I, had co-founded the firm in Kent in the eighteenth century.