Roger Bowen, Tower Captain of the Bell Ringers at St. Andrew’s Church, Bredwardine, assisted Paul Mason from Hayward Mills, the Bells Contractors, in fitting new ropes to the recently restored bells. The new ropes are beautiful; very rich and elegant in the captain’s choice of colours: gold and black. The ringing-team were very impressed and delighted to “christen” the new ropes on Wednesday night’s practice.
Fitting of the new ropes is the final stage of the Bell Restoration project begun almost three years ago. At that time a programme of fund-raising was started. The object was to raise sufficient money for several reasons. 1) Install a new Bell Frame because the ancient wooden frame had been considered unsafe, 2) Completely restore the peal of six bells, silent for many years, 3) Recast and retune the broken tenor bell and 4) Hang a medieval bell separately as a single tolling bell. The final project objective which remains to be completed is to install a seat / cupboard in the bell-tower room.
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