Tolling Tenor (Half-Muffled) for Holocaust Memorial Day

Tolling the heaviest (tenor) bell half-muffled, i.e. alternately muffled (in memory) and open/loud and bright (prayer for better future).

General public can hear the bell being tolled across the local community, especially closer to the church.

Bell will be raised before tolling commences, and then tenor bell will then toll slowly approximately 80 times representing 80 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration and death camp was liberated on 27th January 1945. The tolling will alternate metal on metal then muffled with piece of leather (40 times each).

The bell will then be lowered again after the tolling. Raising and lowering the bell rings more rapidly.

A candle will shine in one of the tower windows during the commemorative HMD activity.

Service Ringing

For Candlemas Choral Evensong

Quarter Peal

St Clement's College Bob Minor for local band and with visiting benefactor from the bell-restoration that was completed almost 11 years ago

Quarter Peal

A group of visiting bellringers from Milverton benefice in West Somerset are visiting to ring a quarter peal.

VE Day 80th Anniversary

Series of 'Firings' (where all 8 bells ring at same time instead of in sequence) and a Quarter Peal of Grandsire Triples to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day 8th May 1945 as part of a national event - see CCCBR VE Day

Tower logbook transcript recording the events from the 8th May 1945:

"At the beginning of May 1945 it was clear that the end of the War in Europe was close at hand. The Allies were victorious in every phase of the War.
It was only to be expected that when the day of peace arrived, the bells of all the churches in the land should ring out to celebrate the event
The actual announcement of the cessation of hostilities was made on the 9p.m news of May 7th 1945. and some towers in the district rang then and there that night.
We made an arrangement on the previous Sunday to all turn up at the tower one hour after the announcement was made, but owing to the lateness of the hour many considered it advisable to defer the ringing until the morning. Mr Limb however turned up about 9.30pm and rang the bells up ready for us but as no one else turned up he perforce had to ring them down again. In the process he had attracted about 50 people to the church where a short service was arranged to give expression to the general thankfulness.
On the following day Tuesday May 8th 1945 the assembled ringers rang a series of firings and a course of Grandsire Triples

812 Grandsire Triples in 32 Minutes
S Usher	Treble		R K Barnes	5
F C Limb	2		A Stedman	6
J Bracewell	3		J Burles	7
J Williams	4		A J Dalton	Tenor

A very memorable occasion"

Peal

Attempt to ring a full peal for Dave Day 2025

Visiting Ringers

A group of visiting bellringers organised by a ringer from Kingston-upon-Thames plan to ring for half an hour at Barrow, and other neighbouring towers