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Welcome to
St. Giles' Bellringers
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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#
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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:
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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.
Other links
This page was updated on:
28/11/2007
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