Arreton
Brading
Brighstone
Carisbrooke
Chale
Freshwater
Godshill
Newchurch
Newport
Niton
Ryde
Shanklin
Shorwell
Whitwell
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10 bells, 20-1-0 | Fridays 7.30 or 8.00 if there is a service, Sunday 9.30 | Upstairs, stone staircase from outside church |  SZ486882 |
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| Public car park just down
the hill on the main road to Newport. The bells were rehung & augmented to
10 in 2002 and are easy to ring; they sound nice inside and are very rewarding,
but Ryde sound better from outside. The "Eight Bells" just down the hill from the Church does good food and has a rear garden backing onto a large duck pond. |
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| Two bells were recorded at
Carisbrooke in Edward VI's Inventory of 1553, and the records also show the
payment of two bellringers on November 5th following the Gunpowder Plot and for
many years afterwards. Eight bells were hung in 1770, all by Pack & Chapman of London except for the 7th which was by Thomas Lester of London in 1748. These bells were used extensively from this time by the Union Youths of Newport, the first change ringing society on the south coast. In 1913 Mears & Stainbank surveyed the bells and fittings and found that they were in such bad condition that they recommended that ringing ceased. The war years prevented any renovation and the bells were finally recast on 22nd April 1921 by Gillett & Johnston, hung in a new frame, and dedicated on 27th July 1921. The bells retain their original inscriptions. The two new bells were cast to the Gillett profiles and match the old bells really well; they are as good a ten as they were an eight. |
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| Treble | QUEEN
ELIZABETH II GOLDEN JUBILEE 2002 MICHAEL EXELL - VICAR
2002 WHITECHAPEL |
4-2-2 | G# | |||||||||
| 2 | JOHN
C. HARLAND 1912-2000 J. KEITH HORSFIELD 1900-1997 ARNOLD W. FLORANCE 1908-1979 JUSTIN M. PALMER 1972-1993 2002 WHITECHAPEL |
4-3-7 | F# | |||||||||
| 3 | 1770 ALTHOUGH I AM BOTH LIGHT AND SMALL I WILL BE HEARD ABOVE YOU ALL. 1 |
4-3-15 | E | |||||||||
| 4 | 1770 AT PROPER TIMES OUR VOICES WE WILL RAISE IN SOUNDING TO OUR BENEFACTORS PRAISE 2 |
5-0-0 | D# | |||||||||
| 5 | 1770 MUSICK IS MEDICINE TO THE MIND. 3 |
5-1-2 | C# | |||||||||
| 6 | 1770 PEACE AND GOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD. 4 |
7-0-4 | B | |||||||||
| 7 | 1770 TO HONOUR BOTH OF GOD AND KING OUR VOICES SHALL IN CONSORT RING. 1887 5 |
9-1-5 | A | |||||||||
| 8 | 1770 OUR VOICES SHALL WITH JOYFUL SOUND MAKE HILLS AND VALLEYS ECHO ROUND 6 |
10-3-22 | G# | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 14-1-25 | F# | |||||||||
| Tenor | 1770 IN WEDLOCKS BANDS ALL YE WHO JOIN WITH HANDS OUR HEARTS UNITE SO SHALL OUR TUNEFUL TONGUES COMBINE TO LAUD THE NUPTIAL RITE JAMES ROBEY - GEORGE YOUND - GEORGE MORRIS - JOHN ARLOT CHURCHWARDENS. 8 1921 THIS PEAL OF EIGHT BELLS WAS RECAST. T. STOREY BUSHER. M.A. VICAR R. FISK - H.L. MORRIS - G.H.HORSLEY CHURCHWARDENS THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY |
20-1-0 | E |
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