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Salisbury Diocesan Guild — FOR WEDDINGS AND SOME FUNERALS

19:15 – 21:00 GMT Saturday, 20th March 2021

Online talk

Ringing for Life and Death events in the 18th and 19th centuries

Speaker: Gareth Davies

What was the difference between ringing for a wedding and a marriage? Did the death of Prince Albert start a trend to have bells rung for funerals? How much did the ringers get paid? Discover how the custom of ringing for such events developed and how practices differed from the way we do things today.

Having retired from a career in education, Gareth is currently completing a PhD on the history of bellringing in Cambridge. He is the tower captain at Swaffham Prior, a six-bell tower in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. He is also a keen handbell ringer. He has tenuous local family links , as his great great grandfather died in the workhouse at Warminster.

Last updated Monday, 22 March 2021 at 14:43:08. First submitted Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 17:06:00 by Robert Wellen.

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