Exeter Cathedral Ringers visit Westminster Abbey
Tuesday 1 January 2002.

"EXETER CATHEDRAL RINGERS START THE NEW YEAR AT THE ABBEY

New Year's Day ringing of the Abbey's bells was this year provided by the Exeter Cathedral ringers. The twenty-two visiting ringers were welcomed to the Abbey by David Hilling and Chris Rogers, conductor and secretary respectively of the Abbey's Company of Ringers. "We are pleased to share the Abbey ringing experience with other capable ringing groups" said David Hilling. Previous New Year's Day ringing visitors have included York Minster, Bristol Cathedral, Birmingham Cathedral and Great St Mary's, Cambridge.

Dr Ian Campbell, of the Exeter Cathedral Society of Ringers, replied: "We are delighted to be ringing the bells at Westminster Abbey on New Year's Day and we are grateful to the Abbey Company of Ringers for inviting us. The Exeter Cathedral band is composed of ringers from Exeter and other churches in Devon, Lyme Regis in Dorset, Wellington in Somerset and Tavistock in South Devon, Everyone travelled to London especially for the occasion".

After ringing the Abbey bells they visited St Margaret's and rang the bells there, and on 2nd January the Cathedral band also sampled the bells at St Martin-in-the-Field's, St Michael's Cornhill and St Leonard's Shoreditch."

Reproduced from Abbey Week.

The Cathedral band rang two long touches of Grandsire Caters and a quarter peal to enable everyone to have a ring.

Westminster Abbey, London. Tuesday Jan 1 2002.
1263 Stedman Caters in 50 minutes.
1   Pauline Champion
2   Sue Sawyer
3   Peter Bill
4   Wendy Campbell
5   John Hill
6   Paul Pascoe
7   Matthew Hilling (C)
8   Ian Campbell
9   Andrew Nicholson
10 Ian Avery

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