Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers to the Ringing Bells of Britain and of The World

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Bells tuned and rehung with new fittings. Bell frame cleaned and painted/treated and upper tier secured to the tower walls bell recast by Taylors as a sub-contract to Whites of Appleton. New cast bell has been hung and rung. Old ring of ten hung "dead" in a new galvanised steel frame for automatic chiming. New ring of ten bells installed with new bell frame all new fittings. Sound control installed. single 3 cwt bell conserved, cleaned, all new traditional fittings for swing chiming manufactured and bell rehung Bell ringing is a team activity that stimulates the brain and helps keep you fit (especially climbing some of those tower steps!) and it also makes a glorious sound!

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Ringing is well within the capabilities of most people. The initial learning takes several weeks, after which you can begin to ring with the rest of the band (that’s what we call a team of people who ring together). Most ringers practise once or twice a week and ring before or after church service on Sunday. Where the ring forms part of a larger chime or carillon, we show the bell’s number in both the ring and the chime, if the numbers differ. Bells cleaned, tuned and rehung on new fittings, augmented to 10 and the frame extended. Also the existing front four replaced with newly cast bells, the existing bells going to the Keltek Trust This turning process is normally carried out by a bellhanger as part of a rehang. Very old bells may even eventually get one-eighth-turned, and if that configuration also wears too heavily, the bell is often set aside for display because of its probable age and rarity value.

U/R, 9–0–9 (461 kg) in G. Unringable; future plans: to be restored allowing full-circle ringing to resume. Whether or not any bell has been turned, and by how much, is indicated by a single-letter code, as follows: 2 half-turned; this is exceedingly rare 4 quarter-turned 6 one-sixth-turned; this is unusual 8 one-eighth-turned X one-sixteenth-turned M multiple amounts, such as one-quarter and one-eighth) Y definitely turned, but by an unknown amount N not turned U an undeterminable state. U/R (full-circle ring), 4 cwt (~200 kg) in E♭. Unringable; ropes fall in a straight line; no slider(s). Bells to be conserved, tuned, rehung on all new fittings in a new galvanised steel bell frame. Bells and fittings being removed Almost anyone can ring. And you can learn to the level you are personally happy with. Ringers might be unmusical, might be bad at maths, might not be very strong physically, and some might have mental and/or physical disabilities of some sort – it is really such an inclusive activity!”

Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers

Dove now displays how individual bells are hung. This is found in the bells table for each tower where this information is known. The abbreviations are FC (full-circle in the style used for English change ringing), S (swing chiming), D (hung dead unable to swing), U (not hung). Major restoration: bells lifted and bearings cleaned/replaced; clappers, crown staples, bell wheels, bell bolts, pads, and rope-roller boxes restored; steel beam ends exposed, replaced by welding new ends as necessary, and re-grouted into tower walls; bell frame cleaned and re-painted Electro-magnetic chiming hammers were fitted and a programmable unit was manufactured and installed.We list first the number of the bell within the ring following the normal conventions, working from the treble to the tenor. Accidentals (e.g. 2♯ or 6♭ bells in a ring of 12) are listed after the bells in the main ring. Data on additional bells in the building will be included where we know about them. full-circle ring), 16–0–25 (824 kg) in E. Ringing temporarily suspended; tuned to old concert pitch (A=454Hz). Steel frame beam end to be dug out from tower wall and replacement spliced in to ensure structural integrity of the frame – Not started Major restoration in which the cast iron “H” frames were cleaned and rebuilt on galvanised steel RSJs. The bells were tuned and given all new fittings and electromagnetic chiming hammers and rehung in rebuilt frame.