Main Branch site:
The Branch web site contains up to date information about ringing in North Bucks. Much of the information formerly in this site can now be found there.
Latest on this site:
Correction of Old Bradwell harmonics and trapezoid measurements and addition of inscriptions and photos of bells - April 2025
Adjustment of trapezoid image scaling to show top of long waisted bells - April 2025
New photos of Emberton's bells, treble inscription and 1899-1901 timeline adjusted - May 2025
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Fastest peal
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Longest peal(s)
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Branch events here:
February 21, 2015 | Branch Practice | |
April 16, 2011 | Branch Practice | |
April 21, 2006 | Branch Practice | Special Method: Grandsire Doubles |
November 21, 2003 | Branch Practice | |
December 15, 2000 | Branch Practice | Focus on Rounds and Call Changes |
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Description | One of the few churches in North Bucks to have a North tower. Sort of semi-detached. |
Approx Date | 1990 |
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Who has circled the tower to peals:
Who has rung the most peals here:
Julie A Haseldine | 1 | October 11, 2012 |
Albert Fleet | 1 | August 30, 1928 |
Andrew Haseldine | 1 | October 11, 2012 |
Brian Watson | 1 | January 13, 1991 |
Charles W Smith | 1 | August 30, 1928 |
Christopher C Stokes | 1 | October 11, 2012 |
Colin M Turner | 1 | January 13, 1991 |
Edmund J Hobbs | 1 | August 30, 1928 |
Eileen Stephenson | 1 | January 13, 1991 |
Horace H Smith | 1 | August 30, 1928 |
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The figures below show the difference, in cents, between each bell and what it should be to be in tune with the tenor.
A positive figure shows that the bell is sharp, a negative figure shows that it is flat. There are 100 cents between notes on the scale.
History of bells in this tower:
| | | | | 1 of 6, John Taylor & Co, 1934 |
| | | | 1 of 5, James Barwell, 1889 | 2 of 6, James Barwell, 1889 |
1 of 4, Newcombe (generic), 1614 | | | | 2 of 5, Newcombe (generic), 1614 | 3 of 6, Newcombe (generic), 1614 |
| 2 of 4, Anthony Chandler, 1675 | | | 3 of 5, Anthony Chandler, 1675 | 4 of 6, Anthony Chandler, 1675 |
| | 3 of 4, Richard III Chandler, 1704 | | 4 of 5, Richard III Chandler, 1704 | 5 of 6, Richard III Chandler, 1704 |
4 of 4, Newcombe (generic), 1614 | | | 4 of 4, Gillett & Co, 1887 | 5 of 5, Gillett & Co, 1887 | 6 of 6, Gillett & Co, 1887 |
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Bellframes Type 8.3.C - e |
Cast iron "H" castings mounted on beams and braced at the top |
Taylor of Loughborough 1889-1893 (wooden beams with wooden top bracing), 1893 (fabricated beams), 1894 (cast iron beams), and 1892 to date (girders) Gillett & Johnston of Croydon 1907-1955 James Barwell of Birmingham 1910-1915 Mears & Stainbank (Whitechapel) c1920-1935 James Grove of Birmingham 1923 |
Classification from "Bellframes - A Practical Guide to Inspection and Recording - C J Pickford 1993"
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