Guild logo North Bucks Branch Archive Project
☰
Tower Details
History and Archive

Weston Underwood, St Laurence

Photos:

History and Archive
Yet another Alfred Bowell installation. A very enjoyable ring that deserve to be rung more often.
1990

8 Peals:

Longest peal: 5040 changes

Slowest peal: 29 changes per minute, on 18 September 1948

Fastest peal: 33 changes per minute, on 24 April 1920

Who has rung most peals here (on all rings)

Arthur R Armstrong2
Miss Edith Sharp2
Timothy A Wooding2
Victor S Adams2
Reginald H Howson2
Edward Thresher1
Christopher C Stokes1
Gerald Kingston1
P David Taylor1
Herbert L Harlow1

The current bells:

1Recorded weight: 3 - 3 - 16Sharp of F by 10 cents
2Recorded weight: 4 - 0 - 13Flat of D#/Eb by 22 cents
3Recorded weight: 4 - 1 - 24Flat of C#/Db by 22 cents
4Recorded weight: 5 - 3 - 10Flat of C by 2 cents
5Recorded weight: 7 - 1 - 11Flat of A#/Bb by 6 cents
6Recorded weight: 9 - 3 - 1Flat of G#/Ab by 1 cents

No ringer has circled the tower

History of the ring:

1687 to 17781779 to 19131914 to present

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687

Henry Bagley II in 1687

Henry Bagley II in 1687

Henry Bagley II in 1687

Matthew Bagley I in 1687

Matthew Bagley I in 1687

Matthew Bagley I in 1687

Matthew Bagley I in 1687

Matthew Bagley I in 1687

Matthew Bagley I in 1687

Matthew I & Henry II Bagley in 1687 recast: 1779

William Emerton in 1779 recast: 1914

Alfred Bowell in 1914

Bell Frame:

Type 8 1 C a

All metal frames (Steel and wrought iron)

"X braced" frames

Double "X" braced frame

History and Archive

Classification from "Bellframes - A Practical Guide to Inspection and Recording - C J Pickford 1993"