Bells to Caterham
The Sunday morning service (9 March 2025) at St John the Evangelist commemorated and celebrated the installation of the bells in St John's in 1975. The bells came from St Mary's Lambeth.
During the service:
- two of our ringers, Alan and Noel, read lessons
- there was a talk: Noel made a brief introduction, focusing mainly on our band of ringers and trailing Milica’s talk on the bells themselves; Milica, using extensive research, dove down into the history of St Mary's bells that later became St John's Bells
- there was ringing while communion was being taken
- the vicar, Jaimée, blessed / rededicated the bells and bell ringers from the ringing chamber
- after the service and during the refreshments we rang call changes