The Bells of Pershore (Abbey Church of the Holy Cross), Worcestershire

Videos during 2023 will be uploaded on Sunday rather than Monday. Ringing at Pershore Abbey was possibly the largest tick off my ringing bucket list so far so I have been waiting for a good opportunity to upload this special video! What a way to start off what will hopefully be an amazing year! The Abbey is famous amongst bell ringers across the world for it's unique ringing 'cage' located 60ft above the drop of the tower. To get to it, one has to climb many stairs, walk along an alley, through a very crampt gap in the wall, along the edge of the tower, and then up and out over the drop on a metal staircase before entering the cage.
To ring most of the bells you have to have your back pressed firmly up against the metal bars, which when you consider the 60ft drop behind you, it's a very daunting experience! To make matters worse still, the cage has a tendency to wobble as well!
Six of the bells are cast by Abraham II Rudhall and the fourth by James Barwell, the treble being cast by Thomas II Mears in 1814. They have since been rehung by Taylor's of Loughborough.
Abbey Church of the Holy Cross. 8 bells, 25cwt in D.

[@chillinbro5423]

thank you ollie, now i can only hear in my left ear only 2:08

[@tallpojjy]

Great video Ollie, and nice vies of the Abbey.

[@massimodigrado8820]

Un fraterno ed Italico abbraccio al popolo Britannico. Complimenti. Non perdiamo le belle tradizioni

[@willrumsey9178]

I want to ring here

[@c-historia]

great video, well done 🔔

[@chillinbro5423]

what a mighty tenor bell god it growls don’t it

[@BellringerBen]

That couldn't be any more of an awkward ringing circle! Tittums suits these bells, saying that, they have a strange tone to them, but in some ways its kind of nice.

[@annenewman57]

In my opinion the third is the worst to ring as you stand on a box and there is no kick-board behind you. I wonder what other hobby gives you access to places that bellringers have?

[@tazzy1211]

I would hate to ring here, I'm so afraid of heights! :(

[@tittums]

It is certainly an experience! To be honest though, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but it was for sure rather nerve-wracking to start with.

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΟΔΑΣ-π4φ]

tenor 25/1/2cwts it is a little clonky as well as the 7th

[@ringerkye9641]

A little clonky😂😂, it is a bin

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΟΔΑΣ-π4φ]

@@ringerkye9641 cast by abraham rudhall

[@christianong3703]

oh god not Pershore Abbey that is a scary ringing chamber and absolutely ridiculous height your legs will turn in to jelly but if I went to ring there I would climb up the steps and walk in to that ringing chamber cage and just kept looking up as in if I was ringing at Pershore Abbey I will keep looking up to the sky and tell you what 25cwt tenor that's just going to make it even more worst because that will take you in to the air the poor ringers who ring there would have had a heart attack by now if that happened