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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Olney | St Peter & St Paul | 10 |
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Fastest peal
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Longest peal(s)
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Branch events here:
December 20, 2014 | Branch Practice & Xmas Social | |
September 20, 2014 | Branch Practice | |
June 21, 2014 | Branch Practice | |
March 15, 2014 | Branch Practice at Olney on simulator | |
December 21, 2013 | Branch Practice at Olney on simulator | |
September 21, 2013 | Branch Practice at Olney on simulator | |
June 15, 2013 | 10 bell Branch Practice on simulator | |
March 23, 2013 | Branch 10-bell Practice | |
November 17, 2012 | Branch Practice with Towcester | |
November 17, 2012 | Branch Practice with Towcester | |
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Description | Peal Board |
Approx Date | 1895 |
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Who has circled the tower to peals:
B Douglas Hird |
David Phillipson |
Who has rung the most peals here:
William Freeman | 16 | December 16, 1933 |
B Douglas Hird | 15 | November 17, 2018 |
Frank Boswell | 14 | October 29, 1949 |
Alan J Marchbank | 13 | December 6, 2015 |
Frederick J Mynard | 11 | October 29, 1949 |
Sidney W Smith | 11 | December 5, 1910 |
William J Robinson | 11 | April 21, 1951 |
David Phillipson | 10 | December 6, 2015 |
Ruth Stokes | 10 | November 17, 2018 |
Christopher C Stokes | 10 | November 17, 2018 |
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1 | F# | Weight Board | Flat of F#/Gb by 35 cents | 6 - 1 - 7 | 29¼ | Whitechapel in 2008 |
2 | E | Weight Board | Flat of E by 17 cents | 6 - 2 - 23 | 30½ | Whitechapel in 2008 |
3 | D | Weight Board | Flat of D by 21 cents | 6 - 2 - 12 | 32 | Alfred Bowell in 1903 |
4 | C# | Weight Board | Sharp of C by 32 cents | 6 - 2 - 27 | 33 | Alfred Bowell in 1903 |
5 | B | Weight Board | Flat of B by 26 cents | 7 - 2 - 27 | 35¼ | Henry Bagley in 1682 |
6 | A | Weight Board | Flat of A by 20 cents | 7 - 2 - 17 | 35½ | Newcombe in 1599 |
7 | G | Weight Board | Flat of G by 15 cents | 10 - 1 - 7 | 40 | Henry Bagley in 1699 |
8 | F# | Weight Board | Sharp of F by 19 cents | 13 - 2 - 19 | 44 | Robert Atton in 1631 |
9 | E | Weight Board | Flat of E by 17 cents | 16 - 0 - 15 | 47¼ | Thomas Russell in 1733 |
10 | D | Weight Board | Flat of D by 13 cents | 24 - 0 - 9 | 52¼ | Henry Bagley in 1682 |
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 | -2 |
2 | 18 |
3 | 9 |
4 | -9 |
5 | -6 |
6 | 0 |
7 | 6 |
8 | -15 |
9 | -6 |
10 | 0 |
History of bells in this tower:
| | | | | | 1 of 10, Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd, 2008 |
| | | | | | 2 of 10, Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd, 2008 |
| | | | | 1 of 8, Alfred Bowell, 1903 | 3 of 10, Alfred Bowell, 1903 |
| | | | | 2 of 8, Alfred Bowell, 1903 | 4 of 10, Alfred Bowell, 1903 |
| | 1 of 6, Henry II Bagley, 1682 | | | 3 of 8, Henry II Bagley, 1682 | 5 of 10, Henry II Bagley, 1682 |
2 of 6, Newcombe & Watts, 1599 | | | | | 4 of 8, Newcombe & Watts, 1599 | 6 of 10, Newcombe & Watts, 1599 |
| | | 3 of 6, Henry II Bagley, 1699 | | 5 of 8, Henry II Bagley, 1699 | 7 of 10, Henry II Bagley, 1699 |
| 4 of 6, Robert Atton, 1631 | | | | 6 of 8, Robert Atton, 1631 | 8 of 10, Robert Atton, 1631 |
| | | | 5 of 6, Thomas Russell, 1733 | 7 of 8, Thomas Russell, 1733 | 9 of 10, Thomas Russell, 1733 |
| | 6 of 6, Matthew I & Henry II Bagley, 1682 | | | 8 of 8, Matthew I & Henry II Bagley, 1682 | 10 of 10, Matthew I & Henry II Bagley, 1682 |
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Bellframes Type 8.3.A - h |
As used (with minor differences - some with and some without the lower "stretcher rail") by |
Taylor of Loughborough 1892 to date Llwellyns & James of Bristol c1904-1925 Mears & Stainbank (Whitechapel) c1920 to date Whites of Appleton c1955 to date |
Classification from "Bellframes - A Practical Guide to Inspection and Recording - C J Pickford 1993"
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