October 2022 - All Saints' bellringers won the Oxford Diocesan Guild 6 bell Striking competition. The conductor for the test piece was a teenage member of the ringers.

May 2022 - All Saints Bell ringers have won the Greenley Shield for being the best ringers in the Vale this year.

Thursday 19th May, 2022 was the first competition since before covid and was very well attended.  The Hinton Waldrist ringers put on an excellent social event during the evening while six bands went one by one to ring.  Faringdon put in two teams and the standard was such that the judges had a very difficult job.  The man in the street (perhaps that should be the man in the church yard) would have thought them all perfect.  For several years Faringdon and Shrivenham have vied for first place but this year Hinton was snapping at their heels.  Could be interesting next year!  In October we shall be off to the Diocesan competition.   More news of that later!  Come and join us on a Sunday or a Monday to see the shield.

Ringing times

Sunday 9.50 – 10.30 am

Practice Monday (except bank holidays) 7.30 - 9 pm. (If you come late to a practice there is an illuminated bell push by the door.)

Visitors very welcome any time. Bellringing is the hobby of a lifetime, come and see what it’s all about either on Sunday or Monday.

Contact :

Peter Hunt, 01367 241024, Ben’s Barn Haremore Farm, Faringdon,  peterhunt50@btinternet.com

Details

All Saints has a fine peal of eight bells.  Tenor 17.1.7 in E. They were cast by Taylors of Loughborough in 1926

Treble :   MEARS & STAINBANK FOUNDERS LONDON 1874            4-1-17
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH RECAST 1926

Second:  MEARS & STAINBANK FOUNDERS LONDON 1874             4-2-24
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH RECAST 1926

Third:     WILLIAM BUNS & JOHN LING CHURCHWARDENS            5-2-23
WILL & ROB COR 1708
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH RECAST 1926

Fourth:   GOD BLESS THE QUEEN                                                       6-2-26
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH RECAST 1926

Fifth:                                                                                                     7-2-7
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH  RECAST 1926

Sixth:      MEARS & STAINBANK FOUNDERS LONDON 1874               9-1-15
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH RECAST 1926
MISS YOUNG, MISS JESSIE YOUNG, MISS MARY YOUNG

Seventh: TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH                                                  13-0-2
TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH RECAST 1926
COL. AND MRS. WARD BENNETT, RT. HON. LORD BERNERS
JAMES WELLS ALDBOURNE FECIT 1803
THOMAS COTGRAVE & EDMD. WILSON CHURCH WARDENS

Tenor:     TAYLOR LOUGHBOROUGH                                                 17-1-7
RECAST 1926
WM. CAREY WARD VICAR, R. J. CADD CHURCHWARDENS R. HUGHES
I: COCK & HENERY. NEWMAN: CHURCHWARDENS
R: WELLS – ALDBOURNE FECIT MDCCLXXVIIII

For more information see the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers website.