{"id":16807,"date":"2025-09-17T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=16807"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:05:13","slug":"hornchurch-bell-ringers-finish-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/09\/17\/hornchurch-bell-ringers-finish-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornchurch Bell Ringers Finish 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July, St Andrew\u2019s bell ringers took part in the Essex Association striking competition finals at Sandon, near Chelmsford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were ten teams from all over Essex taking part and the standard of ringing was very high as it is every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each team rang 240 changes of their chosen method which took about seven minutes. We were the first to ring and were pleased with our performance containing very few errors. The judges commented later that we \u2018made a confident start\u2019 and \u2018set the tone for the day.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were delighted to finish in third\u00a0place which is our best achievement in this event for about 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our relatively inexperienced team rang as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Marianne Hayward\u00a0\u2013 Treble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Carys Hayward \u00a0\u2013 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Michelle Stephenson \u2013 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Nick Allen\u00a0\u2013 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Clive Stephenson\u00a0\u2013 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mark Lendon\u00a0\u2013 Tenor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all our ringers especially Carys Hayward who took part in this competition for the very first time, aged 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photograph below shows our ringers in the order they rang.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Adobe-Express-file.jpg?resize=900%2C675&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image of the six ringers outside the church.\" class=\"wp-image-16808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Adobe-Express-file.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Adobe-Express-file.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Adobe-Express-file.jpg?resize=380%2C285&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Adobe-Express-file.jpg?resize=285%2C214&amp;ssl=1 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 12th\u00a0July, St Andrew\u2019s bell ringers took part in the Essex Association striking competition finals at Sandon, near Chelmsford. There were ten teams from all over Essex taking part and the standard of ringing was very high as it is every year. Each team rang 240 changes of their chosen method which took about<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2025\/09\/17\/hornchurch-bell-ringers-finish-3rd\/\" 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":[19,32],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-16807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-essex-association","tag-competitions","tag-essex-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-4n5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807","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=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16809,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}