The web site of St. Michael's Church, Cumnor, Bell Ringers, May 2001

 

 

  
  

  
  

 

 

UMNOR CHURCH

 

ELL RINGERS       

 

Welcome to the web page of the Bell Ringers of St. Michael's Church, Cumnor.

Our practice ringing is on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 pm.

All visitors are welcome.

Ringing for Sunday Services is at 10.15-10.55 am . Evening services are infrequent, so please confirm beforehand with the Tower Captain.

The Vicar is the Reverend Geoff Maughan.

(See below for the Tower Captain's email and telephone details).

 

Jubilee peal, 2002. See below

 

    
  
 Drawings by Peter Matthews.  

 

 

Tower Captain : Jenny Dyer

Tel: 01865 862042

e-mail: jadyer55@hotmail.com

 

 

  The Bells of St. Michael's Church, Cumnor.
  
    

 Bell

Diameter

Ft                          in

mm

Weight

Cwt       qr           lb

Kg

Note

Date

 Maker

 Tenor

 3                     7.25

1099

 13        1            4

677

 F

 1700

 Abraham Rudhall

7

3                     3.25

997

10           2           7

538

G

1623

 Ellis Knight

6

2                    11.25

895

8           1           11

425

A

1620

 Henry Knight

5

2                     8.0

813

6           1           0

318

B

1621

 Henry Knight

4

2                     5.5

749

4           3           7

245

C

1666

 Richard Keene

3

2                     3.87

708

4           1           5

219

D

1932

 Mears and Stainbank

2

2                     2.5

673

3           3           23

201

E

1987

 Whitechapel

Treble

2                  1.5

648

3           2           6

181

F

1987

 Whitechapel

Sanctus

1                     2.0

356
    

Unknown

 Unknown
           

 

Inscriptions and notes.

Treble:      JESSE W. HAWTIN ACCOUNTANT

1901 - 75

 

2.      FRANCES H.S.CHURD

         RESEARCH CHEMIST      1909 -1948

Both bells have      WHITES OF APPLETON CHURCH BELL HANGERS      cast on the rear.

 

3.      HENRX KNXGHT MADE MEE ANO X6X7 TB XP RECAST 1932/MEARS AND STAINBANK FOUNDERS, LONDON

 

4.      WILLIAM PERRY GEORG GODFRY. 1666

 

5.      EDWARD COOKE HENRX TAYLAR CHVRCH WARDENS H K X62X

 

6.      HENRX KNXGHT MADE MEE X620

 

7.      LET YOVR HOPE BE XN THE LORD X623 EK

 

Tenor.     GOD PROSPER THE CHVRCH OF ENGLAND ABRA:RVDHALL

 

  
  

 

The above information and the illustration are taken from 'The Bells of St. Michael's Church, Cumnor,

An Historical Note and Brief Account of the 1989 Augmentation and Rehanging'

by Dr. P. Hawtin C. Eng.

The illustration is by Mrs Kay Green.

 

 

JUBILEE PEAL

 

Oxford Diocesan Guild
Church of St Michael, Cumnor, Oxford
Tuesday, 4 June 2002
in
2 hours 57 minutes
A Peal of 5040 Stedman Triples
Tenor: 13-1-4

Click here for details

 

 

   

 

Some rules for bell ringers. From Fowey Church, Cornwall.

 

 

   
 

 
  
     

   
 

 Statue of Elizabeth I in Cumnor Church
  
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 A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY

November 22 1687

 

JOHN DRYDEN
 
 

 

FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
When nature underneath a heap
Of jarring atoms lay,
And could not heave her head,
The tuneful voice was heard from high,
'Arise, ye more than dead!'
Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,
In order to their stations leap,
And Music's power obey.
From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
When Jubal struck the chorded shell,
His listening brethren stood around,
And, wondering, on their faces fell
To worship that celestial sound:
Less than a God they thought there could not dwell
Within the hollow of that shell,
That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?

The trumpet's loud clangour
Excites us to arms,
With shrill notes of anger,
And mortal alarms.
The double double double beat
Of the thundering drum
Cries Hark! the foes come;
Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat!

The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers,
Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute.

Sharp violins proclaim
Their jealous pangs and desperation,
Fury, frantic indignation,
Depth of pains, and height of passion,
For the fair, disdainful dame.

But O, what art can teach,
What human voice can reach,
The sacred organ's praise?
Notes inspiring holy love,
Notes that wing their heavenly ways
To mend the choirs above.

Orpheus could lead the savage race;
And trees unrooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre;
But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher:
When to her organ vocal breath was given,
An angel heard, and straight appear'd
Mistaking Earth for Heaven.

GRAND CHORUS.

 

As from the power of sacred lays
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator's praise
To all the Blest above;
So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky!

 

  
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 The Sheepheards Consort
  
 

Harke iollie Sheepheards,
harke yond lustie ringing :
How cheerefully the bells daunce,
the whilst the Lads are springing?
Goe we then, why sit ye here delaying :
And all yond merry wanton lasses playing?
How gailie Flora leades it,
and sweetly treads it?
The woods and groaves they ring,
louely resounding :
With Ecchoes sweet rebounding.

 

FINIS Out of Ma. Morleys Madrigals.
  
 

 

From England's Helicon, 1600
  
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Two poems above, which testify to the religious power of music and harmony,
and the antiquity of bell ringing in this country.

 

 

Tower Captain : Jenny Dyer

Tel: 01865 862042

e-mail: jenny.dyer@btinternet.com

 

 

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