Bell Ringing

All Saints' has eight bells in the tower, hung on ball bearings, with a tenor of 25cwt.  Practice night is Tuesday 7.30pm - 9.00pm.  Visiting ringers are always welcome.  We also warmly welcome beginners.

The inscriptions on our bells read as follows:

Treble:      I sing the praise of God, the Three in One, And memory of saints, who through the years, have offered praise in this glorious House. Martock, when you hear my voice, With those departed you may yet rejoice.

                                                                        John Harrison, Curate 188/8-1896  

Second:    To the Glory of God, and in honour of the Coronation of H.M.King Edward VII.

Three new bells were added June 190 completing the octave in a new frame by offertories and over 400 subscriptions, varying from 2d top £10.

  Third:  (a)A.P.Wickham, vicar, 1902.,names of Curate, Churchwardens, and Committee, 
            
(b) names of ringers incised and painted red.
 

 

Fourth:   William Adams, Thomas Dight, churchwardens. 

At dawn the rustic to his toil I call to grateful rest when shades of evening fall, I call to prayer to Martock make it known Salvation’s purchased by the death of one.

This bell had previously been recast in 1843, and was then 2ft.10 ins, in diameter, and weighed 3cwt. It bore the inscription: “Mears, London, 1843”.

Fifth:    IN. IW 1657.    There are crosses, of which four or five different kinds are used. They are illustrated in Ellacombe’s “Bells of Somerset”, figs. 85, 86, 88, 90.

     
  

Sixth:          SANCTE GABRIEL ORA PRO NOBIS. (This is written in Gothic characters).

Seventh:     BEE MEEKE AND LOWLY TO HEARE THE WORDE OF GOD.

Tenor:        My sound and servis all and some
                   Is to invyt you for to come
                   To serve the Lord, to love your friend,
                   And to be mindful of yower end

                    E.A. Salmon (Vicar)   W. H. Richards  J. Adams (churchwardens)

                    Also the arms of Bristol City.  Llewellyn and James Bristol 1877.

(The old tenor had the same four lines with Thomas Rowe, John Chaffie, Anno Domini 1645.  It was cracked in 1870 and re-cast in 1877.
    

      These are the wheels and headstocks of seven of our eight bells.  In this picture the bells are in the 'down' position, which is the way they are left when they are not being rung.
  

  
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