Cheswardine, St Swithun
Sunday: 9.15
- 10.00 (except 5th Sunday) - check with tower
correspondent
5.45 - 6.30 (3rd Sunday)
Thursday: 7.30 - 9.00
Treble, second and seventh: John Taylor &
Co. of
Loughborough, 1929
Third, fourth, fifth and sixth: Charles & George Mears
of London, 1849
Tenor: Thomas Clibury I of Wellington, 1634
The bells were tuned
and augmented by Taylors in 1929. All canons have been removed and
all bells have modern fittings in a cast iron frame. (Pickford 8.3: D1,
E2, F3, H4, G5, A6, B7, C8)
The ground floor ringing room is entered from the back of the nave. There is a long rope draught which makes the bells a little tricky to handle.
Parking is in the road outside the church. A shop, Post Office and two pubs are available nearby. The choice of pub might be influenced by one of the local ringers running a micro-brewery at one of them - this site is free of advertising, but as a clue, the pub's name is a combination of a colour and a fierce African animal.
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 Above: Detail from the Tenor inscription
Left: Founders and date for the bells cast by Charles and George Mears at Whitechapel
Right: The seventh bell, recast by Taylors in 1929 with part of the former inscription reproduced
Below: The Treble
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