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St. Mary, Adderbury, Oxon
Banbury branch of the ODG
St. Mary, Adderbury
St. Mary, Adderbury ©PB 10 Mar 2002
Dedication: St. Mary, Adderbury

Service Ringing: Sun 09.40

Practice night: Thu 7.30pm

Architecture

The church was built in th 13th century and enlarged in the 14th when the west tower was built, the aisles widened and the carved cornices to the tower and aisles added with grotesque figures human and animal.

Simon Jenkins 14th century stone carvings
Victorian restoration 1866 by Sir G.G.Scott.

Misericords and kneelers
kneeler on misericord
Kneeler with bell sitting on a misericord
©KMC 7 Jun 2002
misericord and kneeler
Carved animals on misericords
©KMC 7 Jun 2002
misericord and kneeler
Misericord with seat in up position
©KMC 7 Jun 2002
The Bells

Access to ringing chamber: 1st floor via spiral staircase

The following information comes from F. Sharpe The Church Bells of Oxfordshire. He last visited the tower in 1947.

Frame: Metal 'H'-type.
Gear: Cast-iron headstocks, Fixed steel gudgeons, Self-aligning ball-bearings, Traditional English-type wheels, Hastings-type stays, Taylor 1927.

A ring of 8, tenor 24-0-14, diameter 52¼", tuned to D
Bell Weight
cwt-qr-lb		 Diameter
(inches)		 Strike
note		 Date
cast		 Founder Foundry
location		 Inscription
Treble 8-2-11 33¼ D 1789 John Briant Hertford WM BELLOW WM GARDNER & JOHN GARDNER C WARDENS JOHN BRIANT HERTFORD FECIT AN DOM 1789
2 7-2-23 33¼ C# 1789 John Briant Hertford JOHN BRIANT. HERTFORD. FECIT. 1789. W: BELLOW. W: GARDNER & JOHN GARDNER C. WARDENS.
3 9-1-16 35½ B 1863 George Mears Whitechapel G. MEARS & CO. FOUNDERS LONDON
RICHARD RUDING STEPHENS B.C.L. VICAR OF ADDERBURY.
ZACHARIAH WALDON STILGOE, THOMAS GARDNER, CHURCH WARDENS 1863.
4 9-3-13 37¾ A 1789 John Briant Hertford JOHN BRIANT HERTFORD FECIT 1789 WM BELLOW WM GARDNER & JNO GARDNER C : WARDENS.
5 11-0-26 40 G 1789 John Briant Hertford JOHN BRIANT. HERTFORD. FECIT. A: D: 1789 WM BELLOW. WM GARDNER & JOHN GARDNER CHURCH WARDENS.
6 13-2-25 42 F# 1927 John Taylor & Co. Loughborough JOHN C. WARDEN JOHN BRIANT HERTFORD FECIT 1789
RECAST 1927 [H8][H8][H8][M]
CHARLES FIENNES CHOLMONDELEY [H8] VICAR
HUGH WILLIAM STILGOE
JAMES SPARROW MORDAUNT
CHURCH WARDENS.
7 16-3-1 47 E 1789 John Briant Hertford WM BELLOW WM GARDNER & J GARDNER C WARDENS J BRIANT HERTFORD FECIT 1789
Tenor 24-0-14 52½ D 1789 John Briant Hertford WM BELLOW. WM GARDNER. & JNO. GARDNER. C: WARDENS. JOHN BRIANT. HERTFORD. FECIT. 1789. VIVOS AD CAELUM MORTUOS AD SOLUM PULSATA VOCO. H : B.
Notes
  1. Simon Jenkins (p534) states that the tower has a carillon which plays a different tune each day. ‘Home Sweet Home’ for Saturday.
  2. F.Sharpe‘The Church Bells of Oxfordshire’ states that in 1947 there was a framed certificate in the vestry recording the bell weights prior to 1789.
A ring of 6, tenor 30-1-3
bell weight
cwt-qr-lb
Treble 9-1-3
2 10-3-25
3 12-2-23
4 16-0-27
5 22-2-20
Tenor 30-1-3
  1. John Briant cast a ring of 8 in 1789 from the metal of the 6 older bells.

Points of interest in church
  Simon Jenkins SJ***C 14th century stone carvings
Church facilities: toilet
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