Holsworthy Bellringers

29/05/2026

For those attending the service tomorrow. There is free parking in the town car park, opposite the Church on Saturday afternoons 🔔

24/04/2026

19/12/2025

🔔 Carillon Restored – Wonderful News for Holsworthy 🔔

I am delighted to announce that, after four years of silence, the church carillon has been fully repaired and is once again bringing the bells of Holsworthy back to life.
This has been a long and careful journey. The carillon is a bespoke apparatus dating from 1949, and restoring it was no small task. It was completely dismantled and returned to the workshops of the Cumbria Clock Company, where it underwent a full restoration and rebuild. This involved highly complex mechanical engineering, together with intricate electrical systems that had to be extensively rewired.
In addition to the carillon restoration, a separate programme of bell restoration took place during the summer, made possible through considerable fundraising efforts. Thanks to this hard work and generosity, the bells themselves are now in excellent condition. Together, these projects have fully restored the sound of Holsworthy’s bells, allowing them to be heard once more across the town.
The restoration of the carillon has only been possible thanks to the extraordinary generosity of a benefactor — a gentleman with long-standing connections to Holsworthy — who funded the carillon project in its entirety. We are immensely grateful for his support.
The carillon is capable of playing 13 different tunes and now sounds five times daily, every three hours on the hour:
🕘 9am
🕛 12pm
🕒 3pm
🕕 6pm
🕘 9pm
During the Christmas season, it is currently playing “The First Noel”, fitting for this special time of year. After Christmas, listeners will once again be able to hear its most famous tune, “The Holsworthy Church Bells”, written especially for the Holsworthy bells by Dr Samuel Sebastian Wesley (c.1865).
The bells of Holsworthy are considered one of the finest peals of eight in Devon, and it is a joy to hear them brought back to life and ringing out once again.
🎶 Please enjoy the photos and video, and listen out for the sound of the carillon and bells as they once again ring across Holsworthy.

16/12/2025

🎄🎄🎄Wow! 🎄🎄🎄
Holsworthy Bellringers won the best decorated Christmas tree in the Church tree festival
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

12/12/2025

This is the Bellringers' Christmas Tree, beautifully decorated for this year's Church Tree Festival.

30/08/2025

🔔 Holsworthy Church Bells Restoration 🔔

☕️🍰. COFFEE MORNING. 🍰☕️

🔔. Holsworthy Memorial Hall. 🔔
🔔. Wednesday 3rd September 2025. 🔔
🔔🔔. 9am - 1pm. 🔔🔔
🔔🔔. £1.50 entry. 🔔🔔
🍰. Raffle/Cake Stall/Bric a Brac/Bring & Buy/ Tombola 🍰

🍰🍰🔔🔔🔔🔔☕️☕️☕️☕️🔔🔔🔔🔔🍰🍰

14/08/2025

I am delighted to share the news that the restoration work on the Holsworthy bells has now been completed by John Taylor & Co, one of the country's leading bell foundries and restoration specialists.
The project began on the 30th of June, when the team arrived to dismantle and remove various parts of the bell mechanism, which were then transported to their workshops in Loughborough for careful restoration and repair. Over the past few weeks, their skilled craftsmen have worked meticulously to restore the bells and associated fittings to their former glory, ensuring that they will continue to ring out for many years to come.
The team returned to Holsworthy on Monday to carry out the reinstallation. I’m pleased to report that the work has been completed to a high standard, and the bells are now fully operational once again.
To celebrate the successful completion of this important restoration, the Holsworthy bellringers will be ringing the inaugural peal of the restored bells this evening at 7:30 PM. All are warmly invited to listen and share in this joyful occasion, which marks the return of a cherished sound to our town.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported this project, and to John Taylor & Co for their expertise and dedication.

29/05/2025

The Church Bells at Holsworthy will be ringing on Saturday 31st May 2025 to celebrate 100 years since the formation of the Devon Association of Ringers, to which the tower and ringers are affiliated. Over 100 bell towers across Devon will be ringing at the same time. The Devon Association is the only organisation in the World representing the Devon Call-Change style of ringing, a heritage art practiced and maintained by approximately 1000 ringers across Devon and beyond.

21/05/2025

🔔Holsworthy Church Bells Restoration🔔
☕️COFFEE MORNING☕️
Holsworthy Memorial Hall
Wednesday 28th May 2025
9am - 12pm
£1.50 entry
Raffle/Cake Stall/Bric a Brac/Bring & Buy/Tombola
🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔☕️☕️☕️☕️🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔