Arreton
Brading
Brighstone
Carisbrooke
Chale
Freshwater
Godshill
Newchurch
Newport
Niton
Ryde
Shanklin
Shorwell
Whitwell
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6 bells, 9-0-0 | Thursdays 7.30, Sunday 8.45 (1st&3rd), 10.45 (2nd&4th), 5th by arrangement | Ground floor |  SZ505768 |
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| Park by the church wall (go around the one-way system to the western end of the village). The three tiers meant the ropes have had to be 'forced' into a circle; if you get problems with the 5th slipping the wheel then make sure you pull all of the way down to pull the sally through the ceiling. Otherwise they sound good & go reasonably. The local (White Lion) is a reasonable pub, but Chale and The Buddle (just south of the village) are probably better, and The Chequers (Rookley, on the Niton road) is large inside and does good food. | ||||||||
| Niton has a short 16th century
tower, with a 17th century recessed spire. It contains six bells, which
have had to be hung on three tiers of two because of the small tower size, in a
metal frame. As you ring, the tenors are just the other side of the
ceiling. The oldest bell is the tenor, cast by "R B", and the present 4th replaces a 1898 bell recast in 1931 when the Revd Hedley-Vicars of Niton made them up to a ring of five to commemorate the lubilee of his ordination. The treble was added in 1984, inscribed "Hope Fulfilled" to compliment the tenor inscription. |
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| Treble | HOPE
FULFILLED WHITECHAPEL 1984 |
3-3-0 | F |
| 2 | GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
DEO MEARS & STAINBANK 1932 |
4-2-8 | D# |
| 3 | MEARS AND STAINBANK
LONDON 1931 IN TERRA PAX |
5-1-11 | C# |
| 4 | PRAISE GOD R.T.D.L
1898 MEARS & STAINBANK LONDON 1931 |
5-3-4 | C |
| 5 | HOLY HOLY LORD GOD OF
HOSTS 1926 |
6-3-5 | A# |
| Tenor | LIVE IN HOPE R.B. 1605 |
9-0-0 | G# |
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