Old Cumbria Gazetteer - All Saints, Orton: bell ringing


included in:-	All Saints, Orton
	All Saints, Orton: bell ringing
locality type:-	ring of bells

	BQV63.jpg (taken 18.6.2009) BTW08.jpg 4th bell:- "OMNIU SANTORU" (taken 31.12.2010)
	ANCIENT BELLS, ORTON
	Three ancient bells have been preserved in All Saints' Church, Orton, instead of being recast as part of the present ring of eight. They were 3rd, 4th and 5th in the old ring, and are displayed hung in a timber frame as they would be in the tower.
	3rd. Dated 1637, inscribed:-
	"JESUS BE OUR SPEED"
	probably made by William Oldfield, of York and Doncaster, Yorkshire.
	5th. Dated 1637, initials CP and IC, which may be John Conyers, inscribed:-
	"SOLI DEO GLORIA"
	probably made by William Oldfield, of York and Doncaster, Yorkshire.
	4th Cast by John Woolley, bellfounder, 21 Henry VIII, which is 1530, as part of a ring of four. Inscribed in gothic caps:-
	"OMNIU SANTORU"
	There is also a shield shape badge with a greek cross on a saltire, with initials L.B. and perhaps smaller initials. John Woolley was a servant in the foundry of Richard Seliok, Long Row, Nottingham, up to 1524. He was a bell founder in his own right in the 1530s, retiring 1539-40; bells made by him are not common. He was at one time involved in a court case with his former employer over a bell at Grantham.

	BLX69.jpg (taken 21.4.2006) BQV64.jpg 3rd bell:- "JESUS [ ] 1627" (taken 18.6.2009) BTW09.jpg 4th bell:- "LB [ ]" (taken 31.12.2010)

	BVH35.jpg Chiming frame. (taken 2.9.2011)

Dove data:-	scale:-
	F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B, C sharp, D sharp, E sharp, F sharp
	Complete octave; intervals TTSTTTS; F sharp major.
	Ringing temporarily suspended
	Bells cast by John Taylor and Co, 1917. There are 3 unused bells - two cast possibly by William Oldfield, 1637; one by John Woolley, about 1529.
	Dove 2009 www.dove.cccbr.org.uk

photocopy:-	Godfrey 1881:-
	vol.6 p.84
	t1006084.jpg
	Godfrey, Robert: 1881: Westmorland Bells: TransCWAAS: vol.6: pp.83-85

notes:-	There were originally 4 bells by John Woolley, Nottingham, 1530.
	There are 3 bells in a frame in the body of the church:-
	Bell 1 cast 1637; inscribed:-
	"[JESUS BE OUR SPEED]"
	Bell 2 cast by John Woolley, 1530; decorated with a badge of a greek cross on a saltire; inscribed:-
	"[OMNIU SANCTORU / LB]"
	Bell 3 cast 1637; inscribed:-
	"[SOLI DEI GLORIA / IC / CP]"
	:: ::: leaflet available in church

hearsay:-	From the victorian restoration, 1878, until the lime wash was replaced, 2006, it is said that the bell ropes rotted so quickly that it was unsafe to ring the bells.

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