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Ringstead Church
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The Church Bells
The Church of the Blessede Virgin Mary
Ringstead
The 6 Old Bells in this Tower were Re-hung in a new Steel &
Iron Frame and Supplied with New Fittings throughout.
No1 & 4 Bells were Re-cast & the whole Ring of 6 was
Tuned on the Five-Tone Simpson Principle.
A new Clock, to strike the Hours on the Tenor Bell and
to drive the Hands of the Existing Dial, was also erected.
Gillett & Johnston
Bell Founders & Clockmakers, Croydon
May 1914
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Inscription
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qrs
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lbs
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Cantate Domino Canticum Novum 1682
S G Stopford Sackville Armiger Benefactor 1914
Re-cast by Gillett & Johnsson, Croydon 1914
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Henrey Bagley made mee 1682
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“God Save the King” John Barret 1682
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Matthew Bagley made mee 1682
S G Stopford Sackville Armiger Benefcator 1914
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Thomas Lilliman & Thomas Farey
Churchwardens 1682
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I to the Church the Living Call
and to the Grave do Summons all. 1682
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Charles Page Wood, M.A.Oxon, Vicar
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| Francis Henry Chapman |
Churchwardens |
| Thomas William Johnston |
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Wellingborough News, 28th January 1887, transcribed by Kay Collins
CHANGE RINGING—On Tuesday week a date touch was rung in the Parish Church of St. Mary, of 1887 changes in one hour and ten minutes, being 720 London single, 720 plain bob, 360 Oxford bob, and 87 Canterbury pleasure. F. H. Chapman 1, W. J. Gilbert (composer and conductor) 2, R. Shipley 3, J. Braybrook 4, E. Mayes 5, and T. Roberts 6.
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| Two Bell Ringers - Thomas Roberts & Mr Shipley - Obituary 1914 |
Rushden Echo & Argus, 8th January 1932, transcribed by Kay Collins
Bell Ringers—On Saturday the bells of St Mary’s, Ringstead, were rung for the first time since the steeple was damaged last August. Repairs have now been completed. The ringers of 720 changes of Oxford Bob were H Deacon treble, E Whitimore 2nd, O H Roberts 3rd, Geo Groom 4th, W Whittemore 5th, Geo W Jeffs tenor, who also conducted the peal. Three hundred and sixty changes of Kent Treble Bob were rung by the same ringers with the exception of H Peacock, whose place was taken by A Smeathers. Two courses of Plain Bob were also rung at the request of Mr Alfred Cobley, of Newark, U.S.A.
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Rushden Echo and Argus, 25th May 1947, transcribed by Kay Collins
Ringstead—On Tuesday, by permission of the Vicar, six members of the Peterborough Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers, rang a peal of Minor (5,040 changes) in two hours and 55 minutes. The peal consisted of one 720 each of Double Court, Single Oxford, and Oxford Treble Bob, and two 720's of Kent Treble Bob and Plain Bob.
The ringers were: G. H. Roberts (Ringstead), treble; S. G. Robinson (Raunds), 2nd; W. J. Whitmore (Raunds), 3rd; B. P. Morris (Warkton), 4th; W. Copperwheat (Raunds), 5th; and B. J. Stubbs (Raunds), tenor. The peals were conducted by Mr. B. J. Stubbs.
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