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All Saints, Wing, Bucks
Central Bucks branch of the ODG
All Saints, Wing
All Saints, Wing İBM 31 May 2004
Dedication: All Saints, Wing

Service Ringing: Sun 9.30 (not 5)

Practice night: Fri 7.30pm

Availability and Restrictions

  • Visiting ringers: By arrangement
  • Quarter Peals: By arrangement
  • Peals: By arrangement
The Bells (6) 28-0-0#

Access to ringing chamber: First floor, stone spiral staircase, 16 steps

The Clock

Made by Smiths of Derby. There is one clock hammer on the 4th bell to pull off before ringing.

The inscriptions come from A.H.Cocks page 619.

The weights in the table were supplied by the tower captain in 2006.

The rest of the information was sent by Andrew Bull , details from The Ringing World 1991 p961 and 1993 p141.

Frame: wooden 1641, underpinned with steel girders 1954.

Gear: iron headstocks (canon-retaining on 1-4 ) ball-bearings, Whitechapel 1992.

A ring of 6; tenor 28-0-0#
Bell Weight
cwt-qr-lb		 Diameter
(inches)		 Date
cast		 Founder Foundry
location		 Inscription
treble 8-0-0# 34¾ 1654 Ellis, Francis & Henry II Knight Reading FOR • THE • HONOVR • OF • CANARVAN • HERE • I • SINGE     1654
(On Waist:)
WISHING HEALTH TO THE NEIGHBOVRS OF WINGE
2 9-0-0# 37½ 1640 Ellis Knight Reading HOPE     IN     GOD    1640
3 11-0-0# 39¾ 1638 Ellis Knight Reading PRAYES     GOD     X638
4 13-2-0# 43½ 1638 Ellis Knight Reading R • K •   R • B •   T • L • AND • W • M    CHVRCHWARDNES     X638
5 17-3-0# 47¼ 1842 John Taylor Loughborough J : TAYLOR FOUNDER LOBRO 1842.
tenor 29-2-0# 55¾ 1863 John Warner & Sons London CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1863:

Notes:

Architecture:

One of the finest remaining Anglo Saxon churches in England. It is a largely pre-Conquest structure, with polygonal apse, a crypt and aisles.
Among the many funerary monuments is that in the north aisle to Sir Robert Dormer, who died 8 July 1552.
  1. The donor of the treble was Charles Dormer, the second Lord Carnarvon. He was descended from Sir Robert Dormer, of Eythorpe in Waddesdon, to whom the manor and advowson of Wing were granted by the Crown in 1544. See A.H.Cocks p 619 for his family tree.
  2. The 'N' and 'S' in the upper line of the treble inscription are reversed
  3. The 'X' in the dates of the inscriptions on bells 3 and 4 are an 'I' with a short line across their centre.
  4. The tenor weight was recorded as 29-0-9 when supplied, before the removal of the canons in 1992.
    The value of 28-0-0# is from the Oxford Diocesan Guild annual report of 2005.
  5. A.H.Cocks has several pages of Church Wardens’ Accounts dating from 1527 to 1641
Points of interest in church

Saxon nave and Dormer monuments

Church facilities: toilet usually locked

Travel Details: OS Grid Ref: SP880225. Park in the village

Eating Places: Queen’s Head and Cock, both within 200yds.

Local points of interest for non ringers:

  • Ascott House (NT) a small Tudor farm house bought in 1873 for use as a hunting lodge by one of the Rothschilds of Mentmore. It was extended in the 1930s for the collector Rothschild who crammed it full of paintings and Chinese porcelain and left it to the National Trust.
  • World War II airfield nearby where Valentine Baker died whilst testing a new Martin-Baker airplane, this tragic accident seriously affected his partner James Martin who later developed an ejector seat to save the lives of future test pilots.
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