{"id":14390,"date":"2025-03-20T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2025-03-15T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T23:01:35","slug":"traditional-christmas-ringing-at-st-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/03\/20\/traditional-christmas-ringing-at-st-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Christmas Ringing at St Andrew&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For more than 60 years, a full 3 hour peal has been attempted at St Andrew\u2019s on Christmas Eve (or as close to Christmas as possible).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023 was no exception and the bells were rung continuously for 3 hours and 7 minutes to celebrate the Christmas Festival:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Essex<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Association<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dove.cccbr.org.uk\/tower\/14513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Hornchurch<\/strong>, Essex<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">St Andrew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Saturday, 23 December 2023 in 3h 7min<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>5040<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Spliced Major<\/strong>&nbsp;(2m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(3600 Plain Bob; 1440&nbsp;Cambridge&nbsp;Surprise)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Composed by: R. Baldwin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">1 M&nbsp;Louise Booth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">2 Marianne R&nbsp;Hayward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">3 William M Beech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">4 Helen J Carter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">5 Jonathan R Slack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">6 Andrew P Barham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">7 Colin Friend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">8 Clive J Stephenson&nbsp;(C)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Rung for the Festival of Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Also in thanksgiving for the life of James A Bullock formerly of Dagenham who passed away earlier this week, 6 months short of his 100th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 60 years, a full 3 hour peal has been attempted at St Andrew\u2019s on Christmas Eve (or as close to Christmas as possible). 2023 was no exception and the bells were rung continuously for 3 hours and 7 minutes to celebrate the Christmas Festival: Essex&nbsp;Association Hornchurch, Essex St Andrew Saturday, 23 December<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/03\/20\/traditional-christmas-ringing-at-st-andrews\/\" 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":[15],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peals","tag-peals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-3K6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","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=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14415,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions\/14415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}