Episode details

Radio 4,19 Jan 2025,2 mins
St Mary’s Church in the village of Newton Valence, Hampshire
Bells on SundayAvailable for over a year
Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in the village of Newton Valence, Hampshire. Built on a Saxon site the Nave, Chancel and Tower are early English, dating from about 1300. In 2021 the old set of five bells were restored with the oldest bell preserved as a Service bell and the rest retuned and the augmented to a peal of six bells. The Tenor weighs nine and three quarter hundredweight and is tuned to the note of G. We hear them ringing Westminster Surprise Minor.
Programme Website