A full peal contains over 5000 changes and usually takes just over 3 hours to ring. Most bell ringers don’t try to ring a full peal very often! Quarter peals are much more popular. A quarter peal is literally one quarter of a full peal (1250 changes, or sometimes slightly more) and takes about 45 minutes to ring, which is a reasonable length of ringing to fit in before a service on Sunday. Even so, ringing without stopping and without making any mistakes for 45 minutes is a considerable achievement.
Full details of our most recent quarter peals are as follows:
Sunday 10th February 2008 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Holloway
1 Helen Forrester
2 Sarah Butt
3 Stephen Taylor
4 Sally Morgan
5 John Adams (conductor)
6 Ian Feltham
First Grandsire doubles: 2, 50th quarter peal at Holloway: 5
Sunday 27th January 2008 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Holloway
1260 Plain bob doubles (44 minutes)
1 Bridget Saunders
2 John Adams (conductor)
3 Margaret Peirce
4 Helen Forrester
5 Stephen Taylor
6 Andrew Marson
1st quarter peal of doubles on the treble: 1
Rung in appreciation of Dr Richard Nicholson's seven years on the management committee of the church's Refugee Centre.
Sunday 2nd December 2007 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Holloway
1260 Plain bob doubles (45 minutes)
1 Ian Feltham
2 Stephen Taylor
3 Sally Morgan
4 Helen Forrester
5 John Adams (conductor)
6 Simon Fraser
For Advent Sunday.
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