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Quarter peals etc at All Saints


  Updated   08-January-2012

See details for: 2011, 20102009,  2008,  200720062005 See totals for : All years since 1966 

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2012

 Date Method(s)  Changes  Dedication  
2 January Plain & Gainsborough
Little Bob Major
2012 On the morning of New Year Bank Holiday to welcome the coming year Details 

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2011

 Date Method(s)  Changes  Dedication  
1 January Plain & Middlesex
Little Bob Major
2011 On the morning of New Year's Day to welcome the coming year Details 
20 February Cambridge Surprise Major 1250 For evening service Details
29 April Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 As a wedding compliment to Prince William & Kate Middleton   Details.
15 May Grandsire Triples 1260 For evening service   Details.
12 June 2011 Grandsire Triples 1260 90th birthday compliment to HRH Duke of Edinburgh  Details
7 September 2011 Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 Farewell compliment to Mhairi Miller, going to St Andrews University Details
18 September 2011 Plain Bob Minor 1260 For evening service Details
16 October 2011 Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evening service Details
30 October 2011 Cambridge Surprise Major 1250 For evening service on Patronal Festival Details
27 November 2011 Plain Bob Doubles 1260 For evening service on Advent Sunday Details

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2010

 Date Method(s)  Changes  Dedication  
1 January Plain & Middlesex
Little Bob Major
2010 On the morning of New Year's Day to welcome the coming year Details
20 February Stedman Triples 1260 In memory of Rev FE Robinson, buried in this churcyhard on 19 February 1910  Details 
28 February Plain Bob Major 1280 In memory of Jasmine May Harrison, 9 August 1910 - 13 January 2010. Details
14 March Yorkshire Surprise Major 1280 For evensong on Mothering Sunday Details
28 March Plain Bob Major 1376 For evensong on Palm Sunday Details
4 April Plain Bob Major 1264 For evensong on Easter Day Details
26 September Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evensong at Harvest Festival Details
17 October Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evensong Details
31 October Plain Bob Triples 1260 For evensong on All Saints Sunday Details
2 November Grandsire Triples 1260 For Sonning Deanery Branch Quarter Peal Week Details
8 November Grandsire Triples 1260 By a combined band for Sonning Deanery Branch Quarter Peal Week  
14 November Grandsire Triples 1288 Half-muffled before evening service on Remembrance Sunday Details
28 November Grandsire Triples 1260 For Advent Carol Service Details

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2009

 Date  Method(s)  Changes  Dedication  
1 January Plain & Little Bob Major 2009 On the morning of New Year's Day to welcome the coming year Details
1 January Tigger Surprise Major 1250   Details
17 January Cambridge Surprise Major 800 To mark the 800th annioversay of Cambridge University
(Ringers all members of Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers)
Details
25 January Grandsire Triples 1260 To mark the admission the previous day of the Rector, David Hodgson,
as Honorary Canon of Oxford Cathedral, and Judith Scott to order of St Frideswide
Details
22 March Cambridge Surprise Major 1280 For evensong on Mothering Sunday Details
5 April Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evensong on Palm Sunday.
Wedding complement to Rebecca Woodward & Stephen Jones, married on 4 April.
18th birthday complement to Emily Mellor.
6th birthday complement to Mhairi Miller
Details
12 April Grandsire Triples 1260 For evensong on Easter Day
Remembering John & Joan Rance (parents of 3rd ringer), married in this church 15 April 1939.
Details
17 May Plain Bob Major 1280 For evensong Details
31 May Plain Bob Minor 1260 For evensong on WhitSunday Details
 19 July Cambridge Surprise Minor 1320 For evensong Details
1 November Grandsire Triples 1260 For evensong on All Saints Day Details
8 November Grandsire Triples 1260 Half-muffled for evensong on Remembrance Sunday Details
11 November Plain Bob Triples 1260 Half-muffled on Remembrance Day Details
15 November Cambridge Surprise Minor 1296 As an engagement compliment to Andy Smith & Cara Polet Details
13 December Grandsire Triples 350 As part of the World Council of Churches' call to world leaders at the Climate Change talks in Copenhagen Details

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2008  

 Date  Method(s)  Changes  Dedication
1 January Plain & Little Bob Major 2008 On the morning of New Year's Day to welcome the coming year
12 January Grandsire Doubles 1260 Half-muffled in memory of Rex Baldry, before his funeral service 
 13 January  Grandsire Triples 1260 To celebrate the life of W Stewart Gibson, who rang at All Saints for 23 years from 1977 to 1999, and died on 3rd January.
 16 February  Plain Bob Minor   1260 Birthday Compliments to Nigel Mellor. First quarter peal inside for Emily Mellor
 2 March 2008  Plain Bob Major 1280 For evening service on Mothering Sunday. First quarter peal inside for Mhairi Miller.
16 March 2008  Grandsire Triples  1260 For evening service on Palm Sunday. First quarter peal of Triples inside for Mary Spence.
22 March 2008  Spliced Surprise Minor 1320 For evening service on Easter Day
13 May 2008 Plain Bob Minor 1260 During Sonning Deanery Branch practice
23 June 2008  Grandsire Triples  1260 To celebrate the marriage of Rebecca Fox and Chris Eamen on 14th June
13 July 2008 Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evensong during the visit to Wokingham of Rt Revd Henry Parsley, Bishop of Alabama
26 October 2008 Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evening service
2 November 2008 St Clements College Bob Major 1344 For evening service on All Saints Sunday

 9 November 2008

Grandsire Triples 1260 For evening service on Remembrance Sunday
30 November 2008 Grandsire Triples 1260 For evening service on Advent Sunday. Congratulations to Mhairi Miller ringing her first of Grandsire inside.

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2007

 Date  Method(s)  Changes  Dedication
14 January Pudsey Surprise Major 1250 For evensong, to mark ten years ministry at All Saints by the Rector, Revd David Hodgson
28 January Grandsire Triples 1260 For evensong, to mark the birth of Joshua Thomas Smith, first nephew of Andy Smith, who conducted the quarter peal
24 February Plain Bob Minor 1260 First quarter peal for Emily Mellor
 29 April  Grandsire Doubles  1280  First quarter peal for Mhairi Miller
 5 May  Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250  40th birthday compliment to Julie Goodchild
 9 October  Grandsire Triples 1287   half muffled before the memorial service of Michael John Ni
 11 November  Grandsire Triples 1260   half muffled on Remembrance Sunday

 


Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2006

 Date Method(s) Changes  Dedication
17-January Spliced Plain & Little Bob Major 1881 Retrospective Date Touch to mark the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers this day in 1881
26-February Cambridge Surprise Major 1280 For evensong
6-March Yorkshire Surprise Major 1280 during Surprise Major practice
19-March Plain Bob Minor 1260 For evensong
9-April Grandsire Triples 1260 For evensong on Palm Sunday, and to congratulate John Harrison on his Civic Award for services to bellringing
21-May Plain Bob Minor 1260  For evensong 
 1-October Stedman Triples 1260 For evensong on the first day that Rev Emma Antoine was celebrant at the morning Communion service, after being ordained Priest the previous week
 29-October Plain Bob Triples 1260  For evensong during All Saints tide
 12-November Grandsire Triples 1287   half muffled for evensong on Remembrance Sunday
 3-December  Rutland Surprise Major 1344   for Advent Sunday
 17-December  Grandsire triples 1260  For evening service

Quarter peals, etc. rung in 2005

Date Method(s) Changes Dedication
1-January Spliced Plain Triples & Major 2005 Date touch for New Year
10-July Grandsire Triples 1945 Retrospective date touch to commemorate 60 years since the end of World War II in 1945
31-July Cambridge Surprise Major 1280 For evensong
9-August Stedman Triples 1260 on the centenary of the day when Revd. FE Robinson (buried at All Saints) became the first person to ring 1000 peals.
14 August Plain Bob Major 1264 for evensong, to mark the departure of the curate, Revd. Paul Cowan
16-October Yorkshire Surprise Major 1250 For evensong. Also 18th birthday compliment to Katie Tutcher
13-November  Grandsire Triples  1260   half-muffled for Remembrance Sunday

Quarter peal totals in earlier years

The earliest quarter peal recorded at All Saints was in March1904, to commemorate 30 years of ministry by the Rector, Canon Sturges. The number rung between then and 1965 is uncertain, because records of quarter peals at All Saints held by the tower are incomplete. The best estimate is 32, but is is probably higher. The figures below, from 1966, are based on more complete records, and are believed to be complete. Note that fewer than 50 were rung between 1904 and 1978, whereas well over 400 have been rung since then.

Year Number rung   Year Number rung   Year Number rung
1966 2   1981 8   1996 11
1967 0   1982 13   1997 12
1968 3   1983 7   1998 15
1969 1   1984 17   1999 9
1970 1   1985 38   2000 5
1971 1   1986 38   2001 5
1972 1   1987 34   2002 7
1973 2   1988 29   2003 11
1974 1   1989 10   2004 5
1975 1   1990 20   2005 7
1976 2   1991 12    2006 11
1977 0   1992 16   2007 7
1978 2   1993 12   2008 14
1979 7   1994 9   2009 13
1980 10   1995 10   2010 13

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