St. Wulfram's, Grantham - The Jubilee Bell
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- On Sunday 17th March 2013, the newly installed 'Jubilee Bell' was rung from the belfry at St. Wulfram's Church, Grantham, for the first time. This short film captures the moment inside the bell-ringing chamber with the bell ringers of St. Wulfram's and also from the belfry itself.
The bell was funded in part by the Rotary Club of Grantham and club President, Irvin Metcalf, joined the bell ringing team for the second peal.
A film covering the story of the bell from foundry to first peal is currently in post-production and will be released soon. The film will feature footage and photographs covering all aspects of the installation including the precarious hoist to the belfry from the floor of St. Wulfram's Church.
Visit the church to see the beautiful font installed to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and, if you choose your time carefully you may just hear the sound of the bells including the 'Jubilee Bell' installed to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
This is such a cool video especially with the opening.
I like the dramatic opening to the video and then the lacklustre ringing afterwards. Very appropriate.
@Ivan Steel well it’s not brilliant. There are a lot of clips
@Ivan Steel that sounds like something I said a while ago about the Grimsby ringers
I am teaching the Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers to 7th graders! This is such a great video to show them. Thank you for making it!
Hi Rebecca, The Nine Tailors was one of my favourite Wimsey novels - I hope your 7th graders enjoy it as much as I did. This film from St. Wulfram's is a 'taster' and we're hoping to complete the film of the complete installation of the Jubilee Bell - from foundry to first ring - very shortly.
Lucky to have learnt here the past few months!
I like the particular style of ring I used to hear when I was at National school next door in 80s. Trying to find a clip of it
My great great grandfather, PC Reginald Woods, was the head bell ringer at this church.
That's great to know. When was that? We're working on a film about the installation of the bell and it includes some footage of the bell ringers in the 50's.
@@ColdHarbourFilms He moved to Grantham from Donnington in 1928 and stayed until his death in the 70s. He loved bell ringing from a young age so chances are he joined the bellringers when he first moved to Grantham.
@@ColdHarbourFilms all bells are cast by taylors the 2nd 10 years ago in 2012 treble and tenor in 2004 the rest in 19 46 the tenor weighs 32-1-11cwt
Thanks for taking the time to leave your comment.
I'll let them know, thanks for your feedback.
Love the flipping music
I have not rung here due to poor health but I have been up the tower and seen the bells for myself.
The styles are not 'bad', they are probably just different to what you have seen so far. A 33cwt 12 like these require excellent handling so they are well capable of ringing them.
i love these bells nice call changes yes i do ring chester
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In one of the views of the bells ringing, one bell is silent and not being rung. Why?
The bell which isn't ringing is known as the sharp second. It's there so that they can get a better sounding bell combination when they're ringing the lightest eight bells. If you were to ring all thirteen, it wouldn't sound very good.
If I may link a video, this shows all 13 bells being rung at a different church. Skip to 15:48 if the video doesn't take you there
czcams.com/video/qIhBuJ3csEg/video.html
I understand change ringing although I have never rung. What I don't understand in the video is that individual ringers seem to have the exact same pace and pull rhythm even though their bell is displaced. Please explain. I also thought that the changes were not allowed to be audibly called.
Hi Michael, Thanks for question but you're talking to the filmmaker not the campanologist. I will try and get you an answer and post it here.
It may appear that the bell ropes are being pulled simultaneously, but with twelve bells ringing there is very little 'space' between bells. If you could see all of the ringers at the same time you would see the slight difference in timing when the bells are rund in 'Rounds'. What you are seeing and hearing here is 'Call Changes', where the caller calls all the changes. Ringing to methods is where the bells are rung to a sequence which does not require the changes to be called. Hoping this helps?
I’m watching it outside😎
I went on a train to London and I went past grantham
Hi Jane, you might have caught a glimpse of St. Wulfram's church then. At the moment the spire is sheathed in scaffolding as repair work continues and we are hoping to have some footage from up in the scaffolding as some lucky invited guests climb the spire this week. Mind you they are doing the climb this Friday (13th) so we wish them good luck!
Sounds like a plan go past it
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bad styles and I have only been learning since this year
how heavy is the tenor?
32-1-11 in Db
same as Maidstones tenor
Did anyone notice that one of the bells wasn’t even moving
Yeah it is probably a semi-tone bell some towers have them so they can ring two different sets of rounds. Liverpool is another example with a 2 sharp bell.
1:17 did somebody ask what time it was?
XD
10 to 11
Why are Doncaster not a 12? Just thinking of them sounds great. They really should be.
Maybe there isnt enough space in the tower
@@fredmills368 Doncaster's tower is about the size of Canterbury's central tower or Guildford's tower. It's MASSIVE.
Not enough money or the tower cant support any more weight
@@fredmills368 You should come and ring in Yorkshire. Our towers are big and they have the smallest rings. Tickhill and Lightcliffe are good examples.
One day ill get round to coming to ring in yorkshire....
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