Practice Night: Wednesday 7.45 pm, except for the 3rd Wednesday of each month, when the tower joins Ardleigh practice
Sunday ringing: There will be no practices and no Sunday ringing at Thorrington for the foreseeable future, owing to severe structural problems. A renovation project is planned.
Tower Captain: Noel Orman Tel:01206 251635BarnviewChurch RoadThorrington, Colchester CO7 8HS
Contact: Steven Clark Mob: 07774 037316MimosaColchester RoadThorrington, Colchester CO7 8JGEmail: stevenclarke292@btinternet.com
Has an emblem of King Edward VII. There is an inscription around the sound-bow saying "generously hung by W J Nevard"
On the waist of the bell:”I AM THE SIXTH, THE FIRST DID RING, THE YEAR OF CROWNING EDWARD KING A.D. 1902. A.CALDECOTT-RECTOR. J.F.J.GRANDJEAN-CURATE. C.H.CHISNALL, F.D.GIRLING, CHURCHWARDENS”
2
3-3-26
D
27.00"
1732
Thomas Gardiner
THOU=GARDINER * SUDBURY * FECIT * 1732 ***
3
4-1-26
C
29.00"
1732
Thomas Gardiner
THOU= GARDINER * SUDBURY * FECIT ** 1732 **
4
5-1-11
B
30.00"
1860
John Warner & Sons
Has an emblem cast into it. THIS BELL WAS GIVEN BY THE REVd RICHARD DUFFIELD-RECTOR-IN 1860. CAST BY JOHN WARNER AND SONS, LONDON, 1860. ROYAL ARMS AND PATENT
5
9-0-8
A
36.00"
1440€3
William Chamberlain
One of the oldest bells in the NE DistrictSIT ROMAN DOMINI BENEDICTUM
Tenor
9-0-22
G
37.25"
1732
Thomas Gardiner
THOU= GARDINER * SUDBURY * FECIT ** 1732 *
The bells were hung in a wooden frame until the tenor bell broke its gudgeon pin in about 1931. In 1933 the bells were quarter-turned, tuned & rehung lower in plain bearings in a new steel frame by Alfred Bowell, Bellfounder Ipswich
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