More and more churches in Australia are installing bells for English-style bell-ringing. The Trust has helped Wagga Wagga in New South Wales acquire several surplus and redundant bells. They have recently been augmented to a ring of 8 when two newly cast bells were installed.
.. has a lighter ring of eight bells which are more suited to the tower. The four surplus bells are hung for ringing in four different churches. Three have been retained in Somerset and the other is the tenor bell at Griffith, NSW, Australia.
received money from the Ringing in the Millennium scheme to replace its poor sounding ring of 8 bells with a new ring of 12 bells. The Trust helped find new homes for most of the surplus bells.
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During 2009 the Trust helped find bells which will be hung for English-style full-circle ringing at:- |
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Hutton Little Paxton Menangle, NSW Merton, St John Divine Moseley, St Mary Newnham, Hampshire North Rigton Rosscarbery Shelford South Ockendon, Holy Cross |
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Worcester, All Saints |
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During 2008 the Trust found bells which have been (or will be) hung for ringing at: Abbots Ripton, Avington, Charwelton, Farleigh Hungerford, Herriard, Maplebeck, Newnham (Kent), Nunney and Stone by Dartford. |
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