{"id":14387,"date":"2025-03-17T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:33:18","slug":"bell-ringers-win-call-change-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/03\/17\/bell-ringers-win-call-change-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Ringers Win Call Change Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;September&nbsp;2023, our team of 6 bell ringers travelled to Loughton church for the annual district call change competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were drawn to ring first and, after some initial nerves, settled into about 5 minutes ofconfident ringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 4 other teams, all of us judged on the evenness of our ringing whilst the conductor changed the order of the bells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the competition, Hornchurch were declared the winning team, having scored the fewest number of faults (errors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full results were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;place: Walthamstow, St Mary: 62.5 faults<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;place: Walthamstow, St Saviour: 53 faults<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;place: Loughton: 49 faults<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;place: Epping: 45.5 faults<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;place:&nbsp;<strong>Hornchurch<\/strong>: 16.5 faults<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done to all those who took part.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_145713-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C595&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14400\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_145713-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C595&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_145713-1.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_145713-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C892&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_145713-1.jpg?resize=2048%2C1190&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_145713-1.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The winning team:&nbsp;Clive Stephenson, Jane Harper, Michelle Stephenson,&nbsp;Ethan Musham, Mark Lendon&nbsp;and&nbsp;James Riley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_161716.jpg?resize=828%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14401\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_161716.jpg?resize=828%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 828w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_161716.jpg?resize=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1 242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_161716.jpg?resize=1241%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_161716.jpg?resize=1655%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1655w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20230923_161716.jpg?w=2006&amp;ssl=1 2006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jane collects the winning trophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 23rd&nbsp;September&nbsp;2023, our team of 6 bell ringers travelled to Loughton church for the annual district call change competition. We were drawn to ring first and, after some initial nerves, settled into about 5 minutes ofconfident ringing. There were 4 other teams, all of us judged on the evenness of our ringing whilst the<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/03\/17\/bell-ringers-win-call-change-competition\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","tag-competitions","tag-essex-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-3K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}