{"id":14584,"date":"2025-04-22T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=14584"},"modified":"2025-03-24T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:05:53","slug":"bell-ringing-for-christmas-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/04\/22\/bell-ringing-for-christmas-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell\u00a0Ringing for Christmas 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As well as ringing on Christmas morning and at midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve, the bell ringers had two extended rings in the build up to Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first was a full peal the week before Christmas on 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0December. This took thre hours to complete with full details as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\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\">Sunday, 15 December 2024 in 3h<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>5056<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Spliced Surprise Major<\/strong>&nbsp;(12m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(576 Superlative; 448&nbsp;Bristol; 384 Aldenham,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ashtead,&nbsp;Cambridge, Cassiobury,&nbsp;Lincolnshire,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">London, Pudsey,&nbsp;Rutland, Uxbridge,&nbsp;Yorkshire;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Arranged from M.C.W. Sherwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">1 Colin Friend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">2 Helen J Carter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">3 M\u00a0Louise Booth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">4 Anthony J\u00a0Bloomfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">5 Adrian\u00a0C Malton\u00a0(C)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">6 Jonathan R Slack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">7 Clive J Stephenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">8 Matthew E Rayner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Rung for the Season of Advent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">First of Spliced S Major &#8211; 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Most methods &#8211; 6, 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The second extended piece of ringing was a date touch on Christmas Eve. This was 2024 changes to celebrate Christmas 2024 and took about one hour and 15 minutes to complete. Full details as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\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\">Tuesday, 24 December 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>2024<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Spliced Plain Major<\/strong>&nbsp;(2m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(8 Little Bob; 2016 Plain Bob)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Composed by&nbsp;Donald F Morrison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">1 Julie A Bloomfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">2 Michelle A Stephenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">3 Anthony J\u00a0Bloomfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">4 John M Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">5 William J Stungo<\/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 Roderic K Bickerton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">8 Clive J Stephenson\u00a0(C)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Rung for Christmas 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Longest length &#8211; 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as ringing on Christmas morning and at midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve, the bell ringers had two extended rings in the build up to Christmas. The first was a full peal the week before Christmas on 15th\u00a0December. This took thre hours to complete with full details as follows: Hornchurch, Essex St Andrew Sunday,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/04\/22\/bell-ringing-for-christmas-2024\/\" 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":[29,18],"class_list":["post-14584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peals","tag-christmas","tag-peals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-3Ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14584","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=14584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14585,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14584\/revisions\/14585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}