Hello everyone! We are sorry for the lack of posts lately (weve all been enjoying a well earned break over Christmas and New Year, largely in churches up and down the country!). To get the ball rolling for 2015, we are pleased to share some fantastic news that the bells of St Peters Church in Ufton Nervet, near Reading in Berkshire, have pealed again for the first time in exactly 15 years. The bells of the now redundant Church were last rung at 12:00 am on 1 January 2000, to mark the Millennium. The building has since been turned into a community centre by the St Peters Ufton Charitable Trust, which wants the centre, called The Spire, to become a venue for concerts, meetings, exhibitions and exercise classes. The Reading branch of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers spent the summer cleaning out the bird debris, installing bird screens and putting the bells back into working order so that they could be rung again at the same time on New Years Day. The branch paid for the bird screens and St Marys Church in Thatcham donated four secondhand ropes. Branch representative, Len Palfrey, said: Bell ringers, in general, are all interested in making sure bells continue to be rung wherever possible. We take a keen interest in the 28 towers in the branch that have ringable bells. When the church was declared redundant, we were eager to work with the new owners of the building to ensure that the bells could continue to be rung.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:07:30 +0000
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