{"id":163,"date":"2013-12-08T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-01-30T22:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:32:52","slug":"update-on-the-new-ninth-bell-at-st-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2013\/12\/08\/update-on-the-new-ninth-bell-at-st-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the new ninth bell at St Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese recently granted us the faculty to replace\u00a0the cracked ninth bell at St Andrew\u2019s. The bell foundry atWhitechapel were then able to cast the new bell on 22<sup>nd<\/sup>November but have confirmed that it will not installed until\u00a0early in the New Year. A few of the bell ringers and\u00a0congregation were lucky enough to go to watch the casting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yhPjiYR43UE?rel=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The existing inscription on the ninth bell was reproduced\u00a0exactly on the new bell:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>In wedlock bands all ye who join with hands &amp; hearts unite,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0so shall our tuneful tongues combine to laugh the nuptial rite<\/em>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>Whitechapel added their name and date to the bell and there\u00a0is now an additional inscription indicating that the new bell\u00a0was cast in memory of Frank Gant and Colin Wright, two\u00a0former Hornchurch ringing masters.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Gant took over the ringing at St Andrew\u2019s shortly after\u00a0the end of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> World War and remained in office for 30\u00a0years during which time he built a strong and successful band.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Wright learnt to ring at St Andrew\u2019s and took over from\u00a0Frank as ringing master in 1977, carrying on the good work for\u00a0the next 6 years. Our current ringing master was taught to ring\u00a0by Frank Gant in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Past and present members of the bell ringers who knew and\u00a0rang with Frank and\/or Colin have given in excess of \u00a32200\u00a0towards the new bell. Members of the congregation have also\u00a0given generously to the appeal and the total amount raised isthan \u00a35500. In addition the Essex Association of Change\u00a0Ringers have awarded us a grant of \u00a31350 from their bell\u00a0restoration fund which is about 10% of our \u00a314000 target.<\/p>\n<p>The new bell was cast from copper and tin and needs\u00a0several weeks to cool down.<\/p>\n<p>It is anticipated that the cracked bell will take one day to remove\u00a0and return to the foundry as valuable scrap. The new bell will be\u00a0set up on the existing bearings at the foundry and a new clapper\u00a0will be fitted and tested before returning to St Andrew\u2019s forhanging. The hanging of the new bell will also take about one dayso the whole process should only take a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts of our Vicar, Barry, Parish Wardens, Anne &amp; Dave and Assistant Treasurer, Richard in helping the ringers with this project\u00a0is acknowledged and appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese recently granted us the faculty to replace\u00a0the cracked ninth bell at St Andrew\u2019s. The bell foundry atWhitechapel were then able to cast the new bell on 22ndNovember but have confirmed that it will not installed until\u00a0early in the New Year. A few of the bell ringers and\u00a0congregation were lucky enough to go to<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2013\/12\/08\/update-on-the-new-ninth-bell-at-st-andrews\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-2D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}