St Peter's, Upper Riccarton
Announcement
As per The Ringing World (19 November 2021) and Ringing Towers (Summer 2021-22), eight bells (tenor 2cwt) donated by the Keltek Trust, with a frame made by Matthew Higby & Co. are to be installed in St Peter's Upper Riccarton. These are the bells donated following the earthquake (2011) with the intention of them being hung in a temporary tower near the Transitional (Cardboard) Cathedral.
Upper Riccarton is about 2km west of Christchurch. The stone church includes a substantial tower, empty except for an old Taylor bell, hung for chiming from the ground floor. Access is by a narrow spiral staircase to a square ringing chamber with a high ceiling. The church had recent repairs and earthquake strengthening.
Mike Clayton inspecting the Chiming Bell
When the bellringers approached the vicar and churchwardens to see if they would support the installation of these bells in the existing tower they were met with great enthusiasm.
The Christchurch Cathedral bellringers look forward to this tower as a temporary home, a place to bring on a new cathedral band, and an extra tower for the South Island of New Zealand, and for ANZAB, in the long term.
Mandy Spearing
January 2022
The Bells
| . | Note | Weight (cwt-qtrs-lbs) |
Founder | Date | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treble | E | 0-3-14 | Whitechapel | 2015 | Whitechapel Stock Bell |
| 2nd | D# | 1-0-0 | Whitechapel | 2016 | Whitechapel Stock Bell |
| 3rd | C# | 1-1-0 | Whitechapel | 2013 | Whitechapel Stock Bell |
| 4th | B | 1-1-0 | Whitechapel | 1996 | Cast for La Bri Winery, Western Cape, SA, but never installed |
| 5th | A | 1-2-21 | Eijbouts, Hollland | 2001 | Cast for St Cybi, Holyhead, but never installed |
| 6th | G# | 1-3-0 | Eijbouts, Hollland | 2001 | Cast for St Cybi, Holyhead, but never installed |
| 7th | F# | 2-1-0 | John Warner & Sons | 1911 | Former Trinity House buoy bell |
| Tenor | E | 2-3-14 | John Taylor | 1975 | Largest of a 3-bell clock chime cast for a clock tower in Pitsea, Essex |
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