Bellringing

Sunday ringing: various (for 11.00am and 6.00pm services)

Practice night: Monday 7.30pm – 9.00pm

(Call number below to check)

Visiting Ringers always welcome.

Interested in learning to ring?

Contact Len Murray (Tower Capt.)

01380 828513

[email protected]

TENOR WEIGHT

14cwt – 2qr – 5lb (1629lb or 739kg)

Ground Floor Ringing Chamber.

The Ringers Plea - printed in Spotlight some years ago when we were short of ringers!

The Ringers’ Plea

From Seend, the Cleeve, Inmarsh and Sells,

There are not enough ringers to sound the church bells.

The methods and rounds, the bobs and call changes,

Are threatened by silence, which then rearranges

The wedding, the memoriam and Sunday prayer,

All hark to the tower but there’s nobody there.

With ropes hanging limp and the belfry dumb,

Holy Cross is still hoping the faithful will come.

So have you the gleam of an urge to pull

On a striped coloured sally all comfy of wool?

Your name held in history for ringing a peal

For calling the villagers on Sunday to kneel?

Then ring my bell, I’m at number two,

Show that you’re willing to be part of the crew.

Learn a skill and a joy which bucks all the trends

And wherever you go you will always find friends!

Len Murray