Yelvertoft tower
All Saints’ Church, Yelvertoft
An active ringing tower in Northamptonshire, home to an exceptional surviving group of five bells cast together in 1635.
The original five remain together
The five Hugh II Watts bells now form bells 2, 3, 4, 5 and tenor of the present six. The addition of a new Eijsbouts treble in 1989 expanded the ring without dispersing the 1635 group.
1635
Cast as a group
Five bells were cast together by Hugh II Watts of Leicester. All five survive.
1959
Rehung
The bells were rehung and given a new frame.
1989
Augmented to six
A new Eijsbouts treble was added, making a ring of six while retaining the original five.
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The evidence-based Complete History explores the Watts ring, village ringing customs, twentieth-century continuity, augmentation and today’s ringing community.