Bell Ringing on the Interesting 8 at Ullenhall, Warks
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Ullenhall is a tiny village a few miles east of Redditch. It has a pretty little church with a very small tower. Think that this tower looks too small to contain a ring of bells? Think again...
0:11 Back 5 being rung up from outside
0:21 Ringing the front 4 to bring out the tuning of the 2 and (especially!) the 3
0:44 The Back 6 (filmed by Aaron on the ladder!) - OK back 5, funny treble....
1:23 All 8 ringing, I start outside (where they are surprisingly quiet!) and then work my way up to the ringing room
4:14 We managed a course of Stedman Triples here!!
6:15 Lowering, the miss and catch failed spectacularly.... :-)
In 1874, John Warner & Sons of London cast a 3cwt 8 for Ullenhall. Local legend has it they were cast to be chimed but a last-minute change of heart had them hung for ringing instead. There is no evidence supporting this but it is quite feasible! There is a small iron mangle tucked in behind the treble rope which is - or possibly was - used as an Ellacombe! The bells are hung in an ingenious 2-tier Maltese-cross shaped frame, odd bells over evens; so small is the tower, the louvres have to be bowed - and in some cases moved completely - to accommodate the swinging bells! The rope circle is anti-clockwise, and very tight; there is also a ladder which means the front two or three bells need to keep a tight rope!
Surprisingly for their weight and with a fair draught they don't fly, but they need pulling quite a bit, with plain bearings running on dry and an installation completely exposed to the weather! The stays and sliders are also metal, making for some rather alarming banging from upstairs!! I believe there was some work done on these in the 1970's, at which point someone took a chisel to some of the bells and attempted a retuning.... Hmmm....
These are worth a visit for the novelty and experience; words will not put into context just what a visit here is like!! Enjoy!!
Tenor 3-0-25 in Eflat
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(Special mention in particular must go to Aaron Moulder, who double-handed so I could do some filming outside and of the ringing room in general, and who climbed the ladder to look down on us and film us ringing the back 6. While the footage of the bells ringing isn't clear (too dark) on his footage, you can clearly see the amount of daylight and exposure when the bells swing!!)
What a cute treble!
Great stuff :-)
on the list of towers to visit.
wowzers!! they must be light. very cramped in that small ringing chamber. Does sound like a whole load of fun though!!
Light - yes, 3cwt! I revisited last year and got some better photos, including upstairs - it's pretty terrifying!
@@simonbellringer Jeez!! I have once rung on a peal of 8 with the tenor only weighing 4cwt and it was in D.
@@BellringerBen Avebury, by any chance? They are rather cute!
@@simonbellringer Yes!! I agree!! have you rung there?
@@BellringerBen yes - once (the same day I filmed Chippenham and Urchfont; didn't record them though). I hail from Swindon, which isn't all that far away from there!
Bouncy clapper on some of the bells
That catch was awesome! Possibly the worst in ringing history!
It was hilarious!! I could just about hear 135 within the jangling.... Then what was left of the catch sort of died ;-)
simonbellringer
That's good, I was on 5 - skill!
Ringer Tim Or luck, your one-in-a-million for the year sorted. Love the way the 6 still kept chiming afterwards. Clapper fittings shot to bits, was quadruple clappering at times!! :-)
simonbellringer Haha! Nick's facial expression is funny at 0:41!
Funny tower
+simonbellringer Great Amwell has a nice ring of 6 bells. Best ones I have rung. Datchworth also have a nice ring of 6. 2 of them were cast in the churchyard. Hertford All Saints has a horrible ring of 10 but it has a nice 2nd. Hertford St Andrew has a nice ring of 8. Broxbourne have a horrible ring of 8. My hometown one is Great Amwell St John the Baptist, we used to visit Broxbourne but people said that they didn't like the bells there. But we still visit Datchworth. I have also wanted to ring at Ware St Mary the Virgin and Bengeo Holy Trinity. East Hertfordshire has a lot of nice rings!
No, I appear at about 1:09, in the blue polo shirt - I give a cheeky grin to the camera shortly before the Stand is called!
cast by john warner and son hung on 2 levels
Have you rung at any church in the eastern district of Hertfordshire?
No - afraid I have never been near Hertfordshire to ring, an area which I must get round to covering... Any exceptionally nice or nasty rings? :-)
Quarter peal here I come
Near the 'ditch: perhaps these are the reason for AJB being the prophet of gloom? ;o)
Lol!! Maybe, just maybe... ;-)
Are these loud?
arhggg come on.. they are not bells.... they are just galvanized buckets of different sizes ^_^
Never mind that happens a lot on my channel
Steel bells
I can assure you they are not steel bells!
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They need to take out the front 3 and leave the back 5
they need to take out all the bells and restart
CambridgeSurpriseMinor No leave them as they are. if every ring of bells were perfect then it would be a very boring world. We need quirky and fun and sometimes pointless rings to make a variety. They are characterful
uuuugh!
I kind of like them and kind of dont. There are a very odd set of bell but they are kind of cute little bells
I loved these for the novelty. They are utterly crap, that is for sure, but they are so crap they are funny which kind of wins!! Certainly odd and certainly worth a visit :-)
I like them because they have bags and bags of character.
Ringer Jake I like them partly because they have character but mostly because they are hilarious and novel!
Same!
and crowle sound bad but nowhere near as bad as these
They are awful in a different way! These are so awful as to be funny, Crowle just sound purely vile! A must-visit though, these. The lady who let us in said this was the best ringing they'd had here for years which was a good compliment :-)
was that you the heary mustash man
Sorry to be a bit harsh I gently hate the clanging notices from the bells th Liverpool angcan cathdrel with the heaviest and highest peal in th world sound better then these
not my cup of tea they are atrocious they sound out of range they need to be put in to tone order !
False bells very fake
They are bells alright, certainly not imitations!! I never said they were very good bells, they are hideous, but they are so crap as to be amusing and it was a novelty to ring here, very enjoyable indeed!!