Grid Reference:-
151/292366
Postcode:
CV36 5HS
Bell Audio:-
Hear the bells as a ring of 5
Guild Affiliation:-
Coventry DG
Peals Rung Here:-
Felstead Database
Sunday Ringing:-
1000 - 1030 (2 & 4)
Practice Night:-
Monday
1930 - 2100
History Of The Bells
A church very much at the south end of the Diocese. They are a ground floor ring and the entrance is through the North Porch door into the church. Until recently they were not the easiest set of bells to ring, being an old fashioned ring of 5.
There were 3 bells up 1842. The tenor was recast and two trebles were added by Taylors at a cost of £105. It is thought that the previous tenor was also a Bagley bell of 1742. The treble was cast with a defect in its crown which was rectified via the use of iron plates around the canons and inside the bell. Only the third had been tuned at this point. The cost of hanging in 1842, by the local carpenters Thomas and William Attwood, was £24 15s 6d. The bells retain their canons. In recent years those ringing the bells noted that they really were in need of major work, but were not by any means unringable. The bells were hung in their original frame and fittings of 1842 - no major work being carried out since their installation.
In 2006 the bells were rehung in a new frame, augmented to 6, with the existing cracked treble recast and the others retuned. The back four bells still retain their canons, the two treble being cast with flat tops. The note of the tenor equates to B-46c
Details Of The Bells
1 Taylors, Eayre & Smith, Loughborough 2006 3-2-15 24.50" 1624.0Hz 2 Taylors, Eayre & Smith, Loughborough 2006 3-3-04 25.50" 1447.0Hz 3 W & J Taylor, Oxford 1842 3-2-02 26.50" 1288.0Hz 4 Henry Bagley III, Witney 1742 4-3-06 28.00" 1215.0Hz 5 Henry Bagley III, Witney 1742 5-1-21 30.25" 1081.5Hz 6 W & J Taylor, Oxford 1842 5-3-22 32.50" 962.0Hz
The new treble |
The recast treble of 5. |