Stowmarket Bellringers
About the Stowmarket Bells Project
Stowmarket is home to Suffolk’s newest ring of 10 bells; five tons of metal hung on a magnificent new steel frame, the culmination of a £179,000 project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, other grants and local fundraising.
Our new peal includes 6 of the old peal of 8, along with 4 brand new bells cast at Royal Eijsbouts in the Netherlands. One of the original Stowmarket bells, now the sixth of the ten, has been ringing out over Stowmarket since 1450. The badly cracked 1669 bell by John Darbie of Ipswich could not be restored and is hung ‘dead’ on the frame, along with the pre-Reformation sanctus bell which has been fitted with a really modern chiming apparatus and can be sounded by remote control.
As well as giving us a ring of 10 bells to allow us to ring ‘Royal’ methods, the project has replaced the old frame which had deteriorated and made the old bells quite hard to ring. The Bells are now all very ‘well behaved’ which makes it easier to ring them well and to teach new bell ringers.
This wonderful project should secure the future of ringing at Stowmarket for at least the next 100 years. If you’d like to learn to ring and become part of that future, please visit our become a bellringer page.
Join the Team
Its great fun, a fantastic social activity. As well as a great deal of enjoyment and satisfaction, bell ringing provides exercise for the body and the mind.
It’s free to learn plus it’s a great social activity too.
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