Arreton
Brading
Brighstone
Carisbrooke
Chale
Freshwater
Godshill
Newchurch
Newport
Niton
Ryde
Shanklin
Shorwell
Whitwell
Tower Contacts
The District
District Archive
Ringing Times |
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| 10 bells,
20-1-0 |
2nd Friday each month,
Sunday 9.00 |
Upstairs, stone
spiral staircase from
outside church |
SZ485883 |
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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 bell ringers 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.
| Treble |
QUEEN
ELIZABETH II GOLDEN JUBILEE
2002
MICHAEL EXELL -
VICAR
| P. EDNAY |
) |
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| P. HEWITT |
) |
CHURCHWARDENS |
| R. SMOUT |
) |
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DAVID WEIR - TOWER
CAPTAIN
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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