In response to enquires regarding the ringing of the bells at St Paul’s tower, all ringing has had to be stopped during the current COVID-19 restrictions.At the moment this is because of the blanket ban on households meeting indoors, but as things ease, we will still have to be extremely careful about when and how […]
Given the current public health situation, it has been decided that it would be prudent to stop ringing at Malmesbury with IMMEDIATE effect. We meet in a confined space, the ropes are used by many people and our band has a large number of over 70’s. All of these plus the government advice has led […]
A visiting band of ringers from the Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers will attempt to ring a quarter peal between 1400 and 1500.
A quarter peal of 1260 Plain Bob Doubles was rung today to celebrate the life of Michael Howarth (1949-2018), a past member of the Malmesbury Abbey Guild of Change Ringers. The ringers were: Treble: Linda Ferris, 2: Michael Lewis, 3: Chris Bush, 4: Keith Player, 5: Richard Gray, Tenor: Ian Wigmore.
Due to a change of service time, ringing on Sunday 29th April 2018 will be from 10:00am to 11:00am.
There will be ringing by visiting bands of ringers on 21st & 28th April. Ringing will be from 1400 to 1445 on each day. Calne ringers are visiting on 21st April and Minchinhampton ringers on 28th April.
On 11th February the service is scheduled to start at 1100. Ringing will therefore be from 1000 to 1100.
The newly updated 2017 version of the Malmesbury Bell Ringers’ Archive is now available on this site for viewing or download. It is in a pdf format (sadly the file is too large to be made available as a Word download). Click here to download the file or access it from the Archive page.
Sunday 30th April is the Parish AGM. There is only one service in the Abbey at 11am. Ringing will be from 10am to 11am on this day only.