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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| Newport Pagnell | St Peter & St Paul | 8 |
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Fastest peal
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Longest peal(s)
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Branch events here:
| January 2, 2015 | Call Changes & Plain Hunt | |
| September 13, 2014 | Autumn Meeting | |
| January 3, 2014 | Call Changes & Plain Hunt | |
| February 1, 2013 | Rounds and Call Change Practice | |
| January 21, 2012 | Branch Practice | |
| January 6, 2012 | Rounds and Call Change Practice | Using Abel |
| March 5, 2011 | AGM | Names for tea to Carol Smith MK 616666 |
| April 17, 2010 | Branch Practice | |
| May 2, 2009 | Wedding | Bells not yet confirmed |
| April 25, 2009 | Wedding | Bells not yet confirmed |
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| Description | Plate on Handbell Box |
| Approx Date | 1887 |
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Who has circled the tower to peals:
Who has rung the most peals here:
| B Douglas Hird | 13 | March 30, 2019 |
| Alan J Marchbank | 8 | March 30, 2019 |
| George W Holland | 7 | November 19, 1977 |
| Charles W Clarke | 7 | February 18, 1939 |
| William A Yates | 6 | August 10, 1963 |
| Harry Sear | 6 | April 9, 1932 |
| Simon Read | 5 | July 20, 2013 |
| Herbert C Edwards | 5 | December 26, 1957 |
| Andrew Haseldine | 5 | April 9, 2016 |
| Christopher C Stokes | 5 | April 9, 2016 |
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| 1 | D# | Weight Board | Flat of D#/Eb by 6 cents | 5 - 0 - 5 | 28⅝ | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 2 | D | Weight Board | Flat of D by 19 cents | 4 - 3 - 26 | 29 | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 3 | C | Weight Board | Flat of C by 20 cents | 5 - 2 - 26 | 31¼ | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 4 | A# | Weight Board | Flat of A#/Bb by 7 cents | 6 - 3 - 12 | 33½ | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 5 | G# | Weight Board | Flat of G#/Ab by 9 cents | 8 - 3 - 6 | 37 | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 6 | G | Weight Board | Flat of G by 12 cents | 10 - 0 - 5 | 39 | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 7 | F | Weight Board | Flat of F by 4 cents | 14 - 3 - 4 | 44 | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| 8 | D# | Weight Board | Flat of D#/Eb by 6 cents | 21 - 2 - 16 | 49 | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
| Flat 2nd | C# | Weight Board | Sharp of C#/Db by 3 cents | 5 - 1 - 16 | 30 | Gillett & Johnston in 1911 |
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.
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | -10 |
| 3 | -17 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | -1 |
| 6 | -9 |
| 7 | 6 |
| 8 | 0 |
| Flat 2nd | 23 |
History of bells in this tower:
| 1 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | | | | 1 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 2 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | | | | 2 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| | | | | 2.5 of 8, Gillett & Co, 1887 | 2.5 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 3 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | 3 of 8, Lester & Pack, 1769 | | | | 3 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 4 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | | | | 4 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 5 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | | | | 5 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 6 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | | | | 6 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 7 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | 7 of 8, Thomas II Mears, 1816 | | | 7 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
| 8 of 8, Thomas Lester, 1749 | | | 8 of 8, Thomas II Mears, 1819 | | 8 of 8, Gillett & Johnston, 1911 |
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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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