Harvington Bells

Ringing the bells of St James' Church, Harvington, Evesham, England. The band is using the English Full Circle method of ringing. First the No. 4 bell is 'stood' or 'set'. It is then rung down to its normal, rest position, then rung back up to its quasi-stable play position. The band then rings 'Plain Hunt', in which the order of ringing is changed to that bells 1 to 5 take it in turns to play in each position. The heaviest bell, no. 6, the Tenor, stays at the end of the sequence. Filmed by Mike, uploaded by Chris

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• Bell
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• Harvington
• full
• circle
• plain
• hunt

[vincent0ne]

Good set of bells, but 1 thing that came to my attention on viewing the bell being rung, should the sally(red white blue furry bit on the rope) ride the wheel as I always thought the sally shouldnt touch the wheel as it can cause problems

[kathyhuk]

Well spotted! That bell, #4, has to be mounted below all the others, because of limited space. Because of that, the sally has to go round the wheel. The wheel itself, and the small guide wheel just above the grommit in the floor, were built extra wide, to allow for the width of the sally. We've not had problems with the sally itself, but we did have problems with the rope jumping off the side of the wheel because the guide pulley was not narrow enough to keep the rope in the centre of the wheel.

[kathyhuk]

... continued If you look closely you can see I've added extra high plywood walls around half the wheel to prevent this jumping.

[1BODGER95]

hence the deep shrouding?

[kathyhuk]

Exactly.

[tenneral]

Just what I wanted to see before my first bell ringing lesson tomorrow morning! Great.

[1BODGER95]

Tenor sounds about 9 cwt. really nice peal of bells you've got yourself there!

[pal05pmajor3]

yea I thought the same thing.

[jfm487]

Thank you from the USA

[mjgriff74]

That ringing room looks smaller than ours! (Wombourne - St Benedicts)