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Bath, Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul
The Abbey is situated in the centre of Bath, a short walk from the River Avon. The City of Bath is a World Heritage Site and attacts huge numbers of visitors. Driving in Bath is not recommended, find a car park.
There are 212 steps to the top of the tower but the ringing room is a slightly shorter climb. The entrance to the first spiral staircase is at the east end of the Abbey and the staircase has 121 steps before reacing a cross walk to the tower itself. A further 49 steps leads to the ringing room. The ringing room is large with plenty of room to ring the 10 bells and lots of seating for anyone not ringing.
2012-05-12 [ expand ]
I visited for the first time on Saturday 12th May 2012 as the first tower
[2nd,
3rd,
4th]
of the 2012 Tower Outing
of the Studley Ringers.
There were only 11 of us so we were kept very busy during our hour at the Abbey. I have seen two people ring up a bell but this was the first time that I had to get involved. Mike and I rang up the Tenor. Bells #7, #8 and #9 were rung up individually and we rang up the fron 6 in peal.
I rang bell #9 for Rounds and Call Changes. I then rang bell #6 for a touch of Grandsire Triples on the front 8 followed by bell #5 for some Stedman Triples, again on the front 8. I ended by ringing the tenor for some more Rounds and Call Changes and then ringing it down.
I'm sure we rang more than this but since I rang every time I lost track of everthing we did. All the bells that I rang were nice an straightforward to handle.
The Bells
The tower has a ring of 10 bells with a tenor weighing 33-0-25 in C. Dove's Guide includes details of the bells at the Abbey, additional information is provided by the Bath and Wells Diocesan Association.
