Little Comberton, St Peter

Little Comberton Parish Church, St Peter, is a solid looking tower built of the local cotswold stone and is situated on your left on the as you enter the village from the south. The ringing room is at the top of a spiral stone staircase that is accessed from the outside of the tower on the south side.

I visited for the first time on Saturday 19^th May 2007 as part of our 2007 tour. It was hard work ringing these bells, you had to work on both the hand and backstrokes. Oh, and the tower moved quite noticeably when the bells were being rung.

I returned for a second visit on Sunday 31^st May 2009 as part of the "RING and RIDE" tour around Bredon Hill arranged by St Andrew's Parish Centre. The bells, particularly #5 and the Tenor are still hard work but my skill has increased during the intervening 2 years and they did not present any great difficulty. I rang up #3, covered for Plain Bob Doubles on the Tenor and rang down #5.

The Bells

The tower has a ring of 6 bells with a tenor weighing 13-1-18 in G. Dove's Guide includes details of the bells at St Peter. No information on the bells history or inscriptions was to be found in the tower.

There is some additional information provided by Worcestershire & Districts Change Ringing Association.