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Peal on 11 August 2007
View from the Tower…
A German account


Welcome to St. Giles' Bellringers

Introduction

  • Captain of the Tower Dermot Roaf
  • Contact Michael Day by email for more details.
  • Practice night: Thursday evenings 7.30 to 8.45 PM.
  • Service ringing: Sunday morning: 9.45 - 10.30 AM, and for Evensong: 5.45 to 6.30 PM.
  • St Giles' bells date from 1602, and are fully documented from 1789 in the Churchwarden's accounts. The four bells were augmented to six in 1850, and to 8 in 1927 to complete the octave. There are now therefore 8 Bells, Tenor is 13 cwt. in F#
  • See the Ringing Chamber

The tower is affiliated to the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Bellringers (ODG)

Some ringers in St. Giles are additionally members of the other Oxford ringing group, the ancient "Oxford Society".

Ich habe nicht die geringste Ahnung von dem, was mich erwartet, als ich abends am Seiteneingang von St Giles schelle …. An account of a visit by Leo G Linder to St Giles Belltower.


The inscriptions on the bells:

Treble

M & S LONDON Venite Exultemus Domino DD Henricus Wylie Hughes
Second MEARS & STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON Te Deum Laudemus 1927
Third Gloria in excelsis
Fourth Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini
Fifth Magnificat anima mea Dominum ait Maria
Sixth Sonitus Egidii conscendat culmina Coeli
Seventh Sum Rosa Pulsata Mundi Katerina Vocata
Tenor FEARE GOD HONAR THE KING 1632

St Giles' Bells and the Poet

'Intolerably sad, profound
St Giles' bells are ringing round,
They bring the slanting summer rain
To tap the chestnut boughs again …
Sir John Betjeman - from 'New bats in Old Belfries' 1945


Books about St Giles and the Bells

'BELL RINGING and other things at St. Giles' Church Oxford' by Philip Walker - a well-researched account of a lifetime at St. Giles. Available in St Giles Church, or by email order.


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This page was updated on: 28/11/2007


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