About Us
Welcome to The Bells of Sussex!
This is a guide to bells listed in churches, chapels, RC churches, and more...
I wish to provide you with a complete up-to-date chronological guide, featuring the history, photographs, inscriptions and details of each bell and their frame within a tower or building in the county.
I'm Kye Leaver, a campanologist from Crawley, St John the Baptist. My aim is to go round every church and secular place with bells, following in the footsteps of George P Elphick, a former ringer from Southover who wrote Sussex Bell and Belfries, using his book as a guide. Since 1970, there have been many changes to our bells, and it's up to us to re-write history to continue the hard work started by our late bell historians.
In 1864, Amhurst Daniel Tyssen published The Church Bells of Sussex in the Sussex Archaeological Collections, which Elphick fully revised and corrected.
By making an online directory, I can update towers easier if anything changes.
Please bear in mind that this directory is still in early days so you may see bits throughout that appear unfinished or under development.
Things I'm currently working on:
Chichester, Former Church of St Peter the Less
Cocking, St Catherine Sienna
Duncton, Holy Trinity - REVISING PAGE
Funtington, St Mary
John Taylor & Co
Merston, Former Church of St Giles
Pack & Chapman
West Dean, College of Arts & Conservation
West Dean, Primary School
This is a guide to bells listed in churches, chapels, RC churches, and more...
I wish to provide you with a complete up-to-date chronological guide, featuring the history, photographs, inscriptions and details of each bell and their frame within a tower or building in the county.
I'm Kye Leaver, a campanologist from Crawley, St John the Baptist. My aim is to go round every church and secular place with bells, following in the footsteps of George P Elphick, a former ringer from Southover who wrote Sussex Bell and Belfries, using his book as a guide. Since 1970, there have been many changes to our bells, and it's up to us to re-write history to continue the hard work started by our late bell historians.
In 1864, Amhurst Daniel Tyssen published The Church Bells of Sussex in the Sussex Archaeological Collections, which Elphick fully revised and corrected.
By making an online directory, I can update towers easier if anything changes.
Please bear in mind that this directory is still in early days so you may see bits throughout that appear unfinished or under development.
Things I'm currently working on:
Chichester, Former Church of St Peter the Less
Cocking, St Catherine Sienna
Duncton, Holy Trinity - REVISING PAGE
Funtington, St Mary
John Taylor & Co
Merston, Former Church of St Giles
Pack & Chapman
West Dean, College of Arts & Conservation
West Dean, Primary School
Projects in Sussex
Place |
Details |
Crawley - West Green, St Alban |
Bell to be rehung and a new clapper to be installed by Whites of Appleton |
Portslade, St Nicolas |
Bells to be conserved, hung dead, and fitted with electro-magnetic hammers by John Taylor & Co, Loughborough. https://taylorbells.co.uk/project/portslade-east-sussex/ |
Twineham, St Peter |
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Pevensey, St Nicholas |
The bells are planned to be rehung by Nicholson Engineering in 2024. |
Penhurst, St Michael the Archangel |
To be tuned and rehung for swing chiming. Work scheduled to commence around late October. The contractors are Nicholson Engineering |
Chichester Cathedral |
Rope guides are going to be installed in November. |
HORSHAM, ST MARY THE VIRGIN
PROJECT COMPLETED!!!
21/02/2023 - 13/09/2023
Whites of Appleton have now completed the work at Horsham, replacing the old Thomas Mears 4ths which cracked on Feb 21st. The new bell was cast by John Taylor & Co, and tuned by Whites. It has been hung on the original headstock and wheel, and given new bearings.
Since February, we continued ringing on bells 1,3,5,6,7,8,9,10.
Since February, we continued ringing on bells 1,3,5,6,7,8,9,10.
SUSSEX COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF CHANGE RINGERS
Bell Ringing in Sussex
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The Sussex County Association of Change Ringers was founded January 24th, 1885 by George F Attree. Today, there are over 1200 members across 130 churches. For more information on how you can get involved with bell ringing in Sussex, go to:
https://www.scacr.org/ Sussex ringer David Kirkaldy published a fantastic book about the association, showing how it was formed, and how it has developed over the years to what it is today. It covers all the years from 1885 - 2010. |
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Map of Towers:
Key:
🔴 Roman Catholic
🟡 Secular Place
🟢 Chime
🔵 Rings
🟣 Lost Places
🔴 Roman Catholic
🟡 Secular Place
🟢 Chime
🔵 Rings
🟣 Lost Places
Meet the Team
Recent Additions:
26/11/2023
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