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Bell Ringing at Riby, Lincolnshire

Filmed 22nd May 2021, this is the first of a few videos from a weekend away which I never got around to uploading and recently rediscovered! Raising the three bells, followed by some Original, Plain Bob and Stedman Singles, and concluded by the tenor being lowered. You may spot a couple of familiar faces: my compatriots Michael, Tim (ProfMoose), and a very young-looking Lewis!... Riby, situated between Grimsby and Caistor, is a small village of around 130 souls. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 (with its name, translating as “a farmstead where rye is grown”, giving a clue to its past). However, there has likely been a settlement here for much longer; two ancient barrows are buried nearby, and an urn containing some 15,000 Roman coins was discovered in 1953. A Civil War clash took place in Riby on 18th June 1645, in which eleven soldiers were killed. The church, dedicated to St Edmund, was originally built in the 12th century, and a blocked Norman door remains in the north wall. Whilst the medieval crossing and Perpendicular tower survive, much of the church was rebuilt in 1863, to the design of Benjamin Ferrey, and funded by George Tomline. Although the exterior is fairly plain, it is a very handsome building on the inside; the fine East end especially caught my eye. The 14th-century tower contains a ring of three bells and a clock, which dates from 1832 and was made by Thwaites & Reed of Clerkenwell. (Although pre-dating the church’s restoration by three decades, it’s probable this clock was bought “from stock” as part of the 1863 works). The tenor, by an unknown founder, is the oldest bell, dating from c.1550; the treble was cast by William Oldfield in 1607. The newest bell is the 2nd, cast (or more likely recast) in 1811 by James III Harrison, who also hung the bells in a new wooden frame at this time. They fell into unringability in around 1952, but were put back into order in 2016 thanks to a local restoration. The bells handle reasonably well, although I seem to remember the tenor dropped like a stone. They are also very loud inside (you can see the bells swinging through the gaps in the ringing room ceiling, at around 1:36), and are not well in tune, the 2nd being a semitone sharp (the Harrison bellfounders were not renowned for their tuning!). You may also spot the unconventional headstock accessory on the treble at 0:59!... Tenor 9cwt in Aflat https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/tower/13312