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

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If you feel what is showing is incomplete or incorrect, then use the 'Edit Details' link on the tower details page to send us a correction along with an explanation. Where we know of a discrepancy with a secondary source, such as a county Church Bells book, or an information board in the tower, we have endeavoured to ensure that the data shown is authoritative and normally flag the discrepancy on the tower details page.

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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. The bells were tuned and given all new fittings and electromagnetic chiming hammers and rehung in rebuilt frame. The note we show for each bell is based on the key note of the ring (usually, but not always, the tenor note) and the position of each bell within the ring. Where an authority has described a bell as mediæval with no more specific date, we enter this as c1499; similarly, pre-Reformation bells are entered as c1599. We have presented it to 2 decimal places because diameters have traditionally been quoted in quarters, or even sixteenths of an inch.For a picture of Doncaster headed bells, see Elphick's Craft of the Bellfounder (1988) at top of page 41, and also page 43 of H B Walters's Church Bells of England (1912).

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For excellent introductions to, and expositions of, bell tuning, notes, and nominals, we recommend both Bill Hibbert's and Nigel Taylor's webpages. The principal problem we envisaged from such extra information is making the job of collecting absolutely every item too daunting.g. a bell coming from one particular foundry), it may be most helpful to show the name of the most likely founder rather than the generic title of the foundry, even though others might prefer to opt for the less specific ascription. e. F double sharp), which also gives it the correct note value when used as bell 2 of the light eight (in G♯). The 7th bell is being rehung on new gudgeons and bearings with its hang being altered to better suit the ring. But, taken with those already collected, these additional parameters would seem to go completely towards meeting the general agreement of a meeting of interested parties held in May 1999 at Leicester University as to the desirable scope for any National Bell Register.

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Major restoration in which the cast iron “H” frames were cleaned and rebuilt on galvanised steel RSJs. The clappering in 7th and tenor is being re worked to produce better grading (timer shafts and clapper throws altered). Electro-magnetic chiming hammers were fitted and a programmable unit was manufactured and installed.Adjustable crown staples are being fitted to all bells to eradicate odd struckness with all existing clappers refurbished. Another interesting contribution to the information readily available about tuning appeared from the pen of Ray Ayres in RW1983/790,812. Thus, for instance, where a ring of 3 in B♭ is tuned as 1,2♭,3 of a ring of 3, we add a flat to bell 2 and show the notes as B♭,C♭,D.