Stowmarket Bells

Update as of 5 August 2024

The Stowmarket Bells Project is now virually complete and our wonderful ring of 10 bells have been back ringing out for over a year.

The bells ‘go’ really nicely and the tower has excellent facilities for teaching and ringing. There are a few little jobs still on the to-do list, but nothing major left to sort.

As a band we have been improving our ringing on 10 bells and are looking for more new learners to help make sure we can keep the bells ringing for many years to come. If you’re interested please visit our Becoming a Bellringer page.

Over the past year the first Peal (5,000+ changes, taking about 3 hours) has been rung on the new bells as well as 5 Quarter Peals (so far).

We have continued to do our bit in the community, welcoming people up the tower on open days as well as giving well over a hundred young people the chance to see the bells and learn about change ringing as part of their youth group programmes. We’ve also continued to raise funds for various charities via plant sales, originally established to help with funding the bells project.

Of course we also ring for community occasions and over the past year have rung for Remembrance Sunday, the Christmas Tree Festival, Easter and the 80th Anniversary of D-Day.

You can watch and listen to some of our ringing in the two videos immediately below, and can see the works in the belfry on the timelapse videos further down the page.