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Peal Boards in the Oxford Diocese
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Peals rung alphabetically by tower

  • Appleford - a 720 carved into window frame
  • Appleton - early peals and a record long length
  • Bradfield - first woman to ring in a peal in the ODG, she later became the first bride to call her own 'wedding peal'
  • Drayton - where the 1000th peal was rung by the first person to achieve this.
  • Great Tew - Masters Peal it better 2003
  • Harwell - 1st peal after augmentation to 8 bells in 1932
  • Iffley - 1st 720 rung by O.U.S.C.R with 2 Troytes in the band
  • Kirtlington - several early peals rung before 1900
  • Long Crendon - A peal of Grandsire Triples with all the ringers surnamed Shrimpton in 1834
  • Oxford Cathedral - many peals including one on a jug
  • Reading - Guild 125th Anniversary peal by Officials
  • Stanton Harcourt - New Treble Bob in 1833
  • Turville - 1st peal on newly restored bells 1997
 

Peals rung in date order

WhenWhereWhatComments
1 Jan 1733 Oxford Cathedral Grandsire Catersrecorded on a jug in the ringing chamber
25 Aug 1833 Stanton Harcourt New Treble Bob 
25 Aug 1833 Stanton Harcourt New Treble Bob 
25 Aug 1833 Stanton Harcourt New Treble Bob 
5 Feb 1834 Long Crendon Grandsire Triples 
10 Apr 1860 Kirtlington Grandsire Triples 
5 April 1869 Oxford Cathedral Grandsire TriplesJ.E.Troyte on Bell 3
21 Oct 1869 Appleton Grandsire Triples 
24 Mar 1873 Iffley Grandsire Minor1st 720 rung by the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers
4 Mar 1874 >Appleton College Single Triples 
14 Jun 1879 Kirtlington Grandsire Triples 
26 Nov 1881 Kirtlington Grandsire Triples 
27 Oct 1889 Appleford Grandsire Minor1st 720 after bell restoration
26 Dec 1889 Oxford Cathedral Kent Treble Bob RoyalJ.W.Washbrook and 2 Guild masters ringing
18 Jan 1898 Oxford Cathedral Kent Treble Bob Maximus1st peal after augmentation to 12
Rung muffled in memory of Rev. C.L.Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
10 Jan 1899 Oxford Cathedral Stedman Cinques2nd peal after augmentation to 12
4 Oct 1899 Kirtlington Stedman Triples 1st peal of Stedman on these bells
17 Sep 1903 Oxford Cathedral Stedman Cinques3rd peal after augmentation to 12
25 Feb 1905 Bradfield A peal of 5040 changes of Minor The 1st woman to ring a peal in the ODG.
17 Sep 1932 Harwell A peal of 5040 Stedman Triples
Thurston's Four part		 The peal following augmentation to 8 bells
14 Mar 1950 Oxford Cathedral Yorkshire Suprise MaximusMarie Cross and Wilfrid F. Moreton among the ringers
10 Feb 1968 Appleton 16559 Grandsire Caters in 9 hours and 10 minutes
11 Dec 1971 Appleton 10,241 Grandsire Catersin 5 hours and 29 minutes
7 Sep 1997 Turville 5040 Doubles 1st peal on newly augmented and restored bells 1997.
1 Jan 2003 Oxford Cathedral Grandsire Catersto welcome the new Sub dean of Christ Church
23 Mar 2003 Great Tew 5152 Yorkshire Surprise Major A peal rung by Masters
12 Mar 2006 St Laurence 5019 Stedman Cinques ODG 125th anniversary


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