Arreton
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Chale
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6 bells, 8-0-0 | Mondays 7.30, Sunday 10.45 | Ground floor |  SZ535868 |
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| Small car park right by
Church. A small straggling village. Reasonable pub (White Lion, with children's
room) as you turn up the lane to the church. Bells restored with a new 4th, new frame and all new fittings in December 2001. The old 4th is now the 3rd, and the old 3rd has been "retired". They previously sounded wierd, with the 3rd & 4th almost the same note. Easy to ring, and (now) tuneful, with none of the odd-struckness of the previous ring. |
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| Arreton is one of the original seven
parishes on the Island, and is the only Island church dedicated to St
George. The 13th century tower had its distictive buttresses added in the 15th century in order to support it, and now contains a ring of six bells. As early as 1553 Arreton posessed four bells, one of which was a sanctus bell cast by John Tonne of Sussex in about 1530 and still survives today. In 1649 the bells were rehung and it is possible that the three main bells would have become the first bells hung on the Island hung for 'full circle' ringing. In 1896 two bells were cast by Carr of Smethwick and in 1951 Charles Yates of Arreton Manor paid for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry to cast a sixth bell and rehang the existing bells. However, the tone remained poor and the bells have now been tuned and rehung with the old 3rd "retired" and a replacement 4th. |
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| Treble | 19
{M&S mark} 51 To the glory of God. C.B. Yates. Arreton Manor. 1951. |
2-2-23 | F# |
| 2 | "Charles .
Carr" .Smethwick. .1896. |
3-0-19 | E |
| 3 | "Charles .
Carr" .Smethwick. .1896. |
3-3-17 | D |
| 4 | THE GIFT OF VIVIEN C. BALL ALLAN M. BRITTAN F.J. CHEEK JOHN & ELIZABETH GURNEY-CHAMPION OF STANDEN J. & A. LLEWELLYN GRAHAM A. NOBBS P.A. & G.J. PETRIE C.D. YATES AND IN MEMORY OF NORMAN A. BALL 19 {M&S mark} 99 WHITECHAPEL CAST TO CELEBRATE THE NEW MILLENNIUM |
4-3-17 | C |
| 5 | A N N O 1589 | 6-1-23 | Bb |
| Tenor | IN GOD
IS MY HOPE R.B. 1601 |
8-2-0 | Ab |
| Old 3rd | WILLIAM GRIFFIN VICOR GEO OGLANDER HENRY BVLL CHVRCHWARDENS
+ CLEMANT TOSIEAR CAST NEE IN THE YEAR OF + 1699 + IG |
5 approx | Db |
| Sanctus | IHUS:NICHOLAUS:SERLE:ET:ALICIA:UR:EJUS:FCE:FI:ME {Nicholas Serle gave me} |
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