Mold (Yr Wyddgrug), Flintshire.  Church of St Mary the Virgin

    

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6 Bells Weight c.8cwt

Practice Night Tuesday 7.30pm

Sunday Ringing -10.30-11:00am. Evening 6-6.30pm unless QP is rung. Please enquire

PLEASE NOTE: WHILE THE BELLS ARE OUT OF ACTION FROM OCTOBER – beginning  of DECEMBER THERE WILL BE NO PRACTICES AT MOLD. IT IS HOPED TO HOLD OUR PRACTICE NIGHTS AT NORTHOP INSTEAD (Same times as above) FOR THE DURATION OF THE WORKS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS, CHECK THIS WEBSITE OR CONTACT THE TOWER CAPTAIN BELOW

 -All welcome - Learners welcome.

 -Methods from call changes up to Spliced S. Minor and Variable Treble Bob

 -Winners of the East Clwyd Striking Competition Trophy 1999-2002

Pubs: The Colomendy, Cadole (Just beyond Gwernymynydd) Take the next turning on the right after the Gwernaffield/Pantymwyn turning.

Tower Captain - John R Williams Tel No. 01352 754671

  

(Excerpt from Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol CI 1951 with permission and thanks to the executors of Ranald W M Clouston)

 MOLD (YR WYDDGRUG),  St. Mary. In a W. tower hangs a ring of six bells (tenor 33⅝. in. diam.) and priest’s bell.

Bell.         Inscription.                                                                                                     Approx. weight—Cwt.

Treble            PEACE AND GOOD NEIGHBOVRHOOD A (Bell) R 1732 : : : : : : : :                                     4

Second         PROSPERITY TO THIS PARISH □ A (Bell) R 1732 □□□                                                     4¼

Third.         ABR: RVDHALL OF GLOCESTER CAST VS ALL 1732 : : : : : : : :                                             4½

Fourth.        HVGH LLOYD VICAR □□ A (Bell) K 1732 □□□□                                                                 4¾

Fifth.            □ EDWARD IONES GENT: & WILLIAM WILLIAMS   GENT: CH-WARDENS / 1732      5½

Tenor.         I. RUDHALL FECT PETER BOOLY & GEORGE INGMAN CHURCHWARDENS. J832.        7¼

Priest’s. A medallion, twice, bearing "WALKER CHESTER." (Fig. 9, 5.) 11⅝ in. diam.

A complete ring from the Gloucester foundry, the tenor being recast. The treble and third bear the border Fig. 9, 14, and the second, fourth, and fifth have the ornament Fig. 9, 8, used as a border. The bells, all of which have canons, hang in a composite wood and metal frame, the trusses being of metal in the form of an A, the bearings resting on the horizontal bar. This frame was supplied by Messrs. Taylors of Loughborough in 1885, and this firm rehung the bells with new gudgeons and ball bearings in 1931. The priest’s bell was cast by Messrs. Walker of Chester, who cast a bell for Llanrwst (Denb.) in 1822 but this bell at Mold is probably of more recent date.

 

Tower Notices and Events 2005

Please see NWA site for Area and Association Events and Practices

 

Date

Venue

Notes

3-8 October

Bells to be removed from the tower

(Provisional Date)

20th November

Bells return to Mold to be on display in the Chuchyard

(Provisional Date)

October 21st (Friday)

Trafalgar Day – Quarter Peal at Hawarden Emma Hamilton used to visit her Grandmother there

Trafalgar Bob Minor?

26th November (Saturday)

Ringing at Chirk Pontcysyllte 200th Anniversary of the opening of the Aqueduct

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Wales Association

Mold, Flintshire

St Mary the Virgin

Monday, 19 September 2005 in 2h 35min (8cwt)

5040 Surprise Minor

720 Norwich, 1440 Beverley, 1440, Surfleet, 1440 Cambridge

1

 Gregory Morris

2

 Maryan Jenner

3

 Elspeth Parry

4

 Herbert Heaton

5

 John R. Williams

6

 Roger Howes (C)

1st peal - 3
This is the last peal on the old ring of 6 before the removal of the bells. Rung to mark the founding of a new treble and a new tenor at Royal Eijsbouts at Asten in the Kingdom of the Netherlands on Thursday 15th September.
Also to celebrate the 90th birthday of Vera Jenner, mother in law of 2 on 17th September.

 

Former Peals can be viewed at the following location http://web.ringing.org/main/pages/felstead-peals?tower=3424

 

September 18th 2005 PRESS RELEASE

 

New Bells for Mold

 

On Thursday September 15th, Mold Bellringers enjoyed a day trip to Asten near Eindhoven in Holland to witness the casting of two new bells for the planned augmentation of the bells at Mold Parish Church. The day started with an early flight from Liverpool to Amsterdam and a drive down to the Royal Eijsbouts Foundry in Asten. The ringers were taken on a tour of the foundry where carillons and clocks are made and repaired and new bells are cast for customers from all over the world.

 

They witnessed an exact replica of the Liberty Bell of Philadelphia being prepared for casting and were able to see and hear some of the recently cast bells which were being tuned and polished before delivery.

 

When the molten metal was ready in the furnace, it was poured out into a huge ladle where the temperature was measured at over 1000ºC. The ringers each in turn, dropped a Victorian silver 3d bit into the bubbling cauldron. This is an old British symbolic tradition to sweeten the sound of the bells. Once this was done, the Vicar, Ian Day pronounced a blessing over the metal before the ladle was raised to fill the two moulds which would take 2 days to cool off before the mould is broken up leaving the bell ready for finishing, tuning and shipment to Britain.

 

The existing six bells will shortly be removed from the tower and after being tuned will return along with the new bells cast in Holland, towards the end of November.  It is hoped that they will be on display in the churchyard on Sunday 20th November

 

The tower at Mold will be silent from 1st October until the new ring of 8 bells is completed in December.

 

The metal is poured from the ladle into the mould of the new Mold Treble

 

The molten bell-metal is poured from the furnace into the ladle
 

 

 

 

 

 

July 1st 2005

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

AUGMENTATION AND RESTORATION OF THE BELLS OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN. MOLD

 

A faculty has been granted for the augmentation and restoration of the bells at St Mary's Parish Church from 6 to 8 bells. The new tenor bell will be called "The Ringers' Bell / Cloch y Clochganwyr" and will weigh 10cwt 2qtrs and 14lbs [540 kg] The new treble will be called Melangell and will weigh 3cwt 2qtrs and 24lbs [189kg]

 

The present ring of 6 bells at Mold (Tenor 8cwt [406.5kg]) were cast in 1732 for the smaller structure which then stood on the site and the new heavier ring of bells will be much more acoustically suitable for the fine 18th century tower which was built in 1773.

 

Eayre and Smith Ltd, Bellhangers of Melbourne Derbyshire, have been engaged to undertake the work and the new bells will be cast by The Royal Eijsbouts Foundry at Asten in The Netherlands.

 

The frame fixtures and fittings will be substantially overhauled strengthened and repaired during the augmentation. The retuned and augmented bells will have a deeper, richer sound when they are rehung in the tower. They will be easier to ring for learners and experienced ringers alike, helping them to maintain the high standard of ringing which they have achieved.

 

The cost of the work will be in the region of £35,000 Further information will be made available on the Moldbells website:

http://www.btinternet.com/~st.deiniols/Bells/moldpage.htm

 

For further details or to make a donation towards the cost of this exciting project, please contact the Tower Captain, John R. Williams Pwll Glas, Rhiwlas, Mold, Flintshire CH7 1DE