The bells are tuned to the key of F Major and are rung from the ground floor of the tower. Before the electrification of the clock, the clock weights descended into the ringing chamber inside a large 'chute'. In consequence the ringer of the treble (smallest bell) had to be incredibly thin! the first peal on the ring of six was rung on 3rd April 1893 and the first peal on the ring of eight took place on 8th April 1901.The inscriptions on the bells:1. ARNOLD, 8TH EARL OF ALBERMARLE, LT COL. COMG INFTRY C.I.V2. DEO GRATIAS. SECULO XX INCEPTO. EGERTON DE TATTON ET AMICI VICINI D.D. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS, LONDON 1901.3. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS. LONDON. 1891.4. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS. LONDON. 1891.5. + MISSUS DE CAELIS HABEO NOMEN GABRIELIS (cast 1400 - 1450)6. + VIRGO CORONATA DUC NOS AD REGNA BEATA (cast 1400 - 1450)7. - JOHN - DARBIE - MADE - ME - 16778. GEORGE THOMAS 6TH EARL OF ALBERMARLE. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS. LONDON. 1891.
1888 built by Wordsworth & Maskell of Leeds and placed in the North Transept.2011 Restored and action lightened by W & A Boggis DissThe organ has a considerable amount of carved wood decoration, including two trumpeting angels at the top and a further angel at each side of the attached console. There are twenty-one gilded display pipes (the shortest in the middle, the tallest at the ends). Blowing is electric.Department and Stop listPedal Key action Tr Stop action Me Compass-low C Compass-high f1 Keys 30 1 Soft Bass 16 $ 2 Bourdon 16 Great Key action Tr Stop action Me Compass-low C Compass-high g3 Keys 56 3 Open Diapason 8 4 Pierced Gamba 8 see note 5 Stop'd Diapason 8 6 Dulciana 8 grooved 7 Principal 4 8 Flute Harmonique 4 Swell Key action Tr Stop action Me Compass-low C Compass-high g3 Keys 56 9 Open Diapason 8 grooved 10 Keraulophon 8 grooved 11 Lieblich Gedact 8 12 Viol 8 TC 13 Vox Celeste 8 14 Principal 4 ConsoleConsole type attached Stop type drawstop Pedalboard flat parallel angled jambs; Swell stops arranged in unusual order:- "the Keraulophon andVox Celeste are adjacent, suggesting that they are the “strings”,while the Viol is at the head of the column, above the Principal,suggesting that it may be a keenly-voiced flue intended to be useas a pseudo-reed.CouplersSwell to GreatGreat to PedalsSwell to PedalsSwell Super Octave to GreatSwell Sub Octave to GreatThe two pedal stops are the same pipes and sound identical; evidently,the Soft Bass was to have had wind cut but this is no longer in order;Note: Gt Pierced Gamba:-added knob, pipes removed 1980(c.).
Families of US airmen visited St Andrew's Church, Quidenham, to see the memorial window dedicated to servicemen in the US Airforce during the Second World War.The memorial window is the oldest 8th Air Force memorial in Britain.The 96th Bomb Group suffered the second highest loss rate of the 8th Army Air Force and the highest in the Third Division.Altogether the 96th flew 321 missions, lost 190 aircraft and 938 airmen.The chapel was dedicated in November 1944 with the sanctuary lamp being donated by a former officer. An old Nissen hut, formerly the mortuary for the base, is now a museum and study centre run by volunteers in the grounds of Aurora Eccles School.The most recent group of visitors included John ‘Lucky’ Luckadoo, aged 101, who was a pilot with the US Eight Airforce during the Second World War and was stationed in Norfolk, making twenty-five successful sorties.
