<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I rang there a few years ago at the practice night (a tuesday) as i was stopping in nearby East Lyng with relations. The church has a stately perpendicular central tower with the stairturret in the northwestern corner. When I rang there I found the tenor very hard work, so I don't know about it actually being lighter than claimed but I was younger and less able to handle heavier bells well. The treble andtenor ropes fall about 18 inches distance from each other and the treble did feel quite light considering it was the treble of an "18"cwt 5.<BR>
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The second and the third fall a normal distance away from each other, then the 4th is stuck right over the other side of the tower all on it's own. The third clapper bounced twice in the bell at every stroke because it was cracked, and the learner who was put on it seemed to be able to make it bounce even more when he hit the stay. He didn't seem to have much control over the rope or the bell but was left to ring on his own.<BR>
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Upside down on one of the wide window sills in the ringing chamber is the corroded remains of the ancient clock, which bear a very close resemblance to the still functioning one in the tower at East Lyng. Earlier on in the day one of the ringers took me up the tower to look at the bells. They are hung in a low-side wooden frame but I don't remember much else beside wooden headstocks. All I remember of a notice in the ringing chamber detailing the bells was that the tenor was cast in 1820 and is in E.<BR>
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One of the ringers told me that about 10 years ago the church architect noticed that there was nothing holding the central circular bell hatch surrounding in place. Ringing was then restricted, 5 people being the maximum allowed in the ringing chamber until a false floor was constructed <BR>
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Hope this helps..<BR>
Paul Kibblewhite<BR>
Winterton, Lincs<BR>
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