Bell Restoration

Below is an update with regards to projects/work that has been completed or is ongoing as at August 2019:

Below is an update with regards to projects/work that has been completed or is ongoing as at February 2019:

Below is an update with regards to projects/work that has been completed or is ongoing as at July 2018: Charing Ropes guides have been fitted to the intermediate floor to hopefully stop the problem of ropes landing on the floor. Chilham Further discussions re obtaining the secondhand bell. Faculty now Read more…

Following acceptance by the PCC at Monkton of the offer of a bell from the Keltek Trust on 23rd January, the project to augment them to 6 is now going ahead. Monkton was up until recently a ring of three and through the efforts of Rev. David Cawley and the Read more…

Below is an update from Brian Butcher with regards to projects/work that has been completed or is ongoing as at October 2016: Aylesham Inspection of a single unsafe bell requested. (DAC) Bobbing Correction of striking for number 2. The restoration of these bells is not going ahead and they have Read more…

Brian Butcher has provided a report of all the BRF work that has been completed, looked at or requested since the previous report right up until the end of August 2015. Download the report from here.

Brian has recently received an updated list of works that do and don’t require a faculty.  This list can be downloaded from here.

There was quite a lot of activity in the past year as the list shows. One big change on the financial front is the reinstatement of VAT relief on bell works provided the church is a listed building. As with all VAT matters it is not quite that simple and Read more…

All Bell Restoration news items posted to the old website prior to January 2014 have been collated and are available to download in a single PDF document by clicking here.