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Tower Details

Provides both location information and additional links to church and tower web sites. For a complete listing of all churches with bells try Dove on-line.

Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright David Bowd-Exworth, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St Margaret of Antioch
OS Grid: SP002332
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 9-2-0
Practice: Wednesday (alternating with Dumbleton) 7:45 - 9 pm
Service: 9:45 am (Alternating with Dumbleton)
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Pauline Eccles, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: Holy Trinity
OS Grid: SO902193
Entrance What3Words: coveted.promoting.donor
Bells: 6
Weight: 13-0-0
Practice: Friday 7:30 - 9 pm (but check first)
Service: 10:20 am
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by David Jessop
Dedication: St. Michael and All Angels
OS Grid: SO961277
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 8
Weight: 19-2-21
Practice: Wednesday 7:30 - 9 pm
Service: 10:30 am
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Philip Halling, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Michael
OS Grid: SP082360
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 14-0-0
Practice: No Practice (Used to be Monday 7:30 - 9 pm)
Service: none
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by © Copyright Andy Dolman, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Mary
OS Grid: SO964204
Entrance What3Words: humble.valley.shared
Bells: 8
Weight: 17-0-13
Practice: Tuesday 7:30 - 9 pm
Service: 9:15 - 10:00 am and 5:45 - 6:30 pm (pm - quarter peals first Sunday)
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by © Copyright Cheltenham4u.co.uk, The online guide to Cheltenham.
Dedication: St. Christopher
OS Grid: SO931204
Entrance What3Words: combining.sooner.love
Bells: 6
Weight: 0-2-11
Practice: Wednesday 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Service: 9:15 am
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by Simon Ridley
Dedication: St. Mark
OS Grid: SO928220
Entrance What3Words: puff.factories.shirt
Bells: 8
Weight: 16-1-2
Practice: Monday 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Service: 11:30 - 12:15 am (also 9:30 - 10:00 am Wednesday for the communion service)
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by Philip Abbey
Dedication: St. Mary
OS Grid: SO948225
Entrance What3Words: mercy.apply.shares
Bells: 12
Weight: 22-2-16
Practice: Thursday 7:30 - 9 pm (12 Bell Practice on the first Thursday of every month)
Service: 10:15 - 11 am, 2nd Sundays 2:45 pm Quarter Peal or by arrangement.
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website
Taken by © Copyright Dave Bushell, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Mary the Virgin
OS Grid: SP075384
Entrance What3Words: years.blockage.potential
Bells: 6
Weight: 11-3-26
Practice: Wednesday 7:30 - 9 pm
Service: 10:00 - 10:30 am
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Philip Halling, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Mary the Blessed Virgin
OS Grid: SO965147
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 7-3-0
Practice: Ringing by arrangement only
Service: none
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Steve Edge, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. George
OS Grid: SP055314
Entrance What3Words: preoccupied.blotchy.carting
Bells: 5
Weight: 6-0-21
Practice: No Practice
Service: 8:45 - 9:30 am 3rd Sunday
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Philip Halling, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Peter
OS Grid: SP017358
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 11-0-0
Practice: Wednesday (alternating with Alderton) 7:45 - 9 pm
Service: 9:45 am (alternating with Alderton, phone first)
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Church Website
Taken by © Copyright Bob Embleton, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. John the Evangelist
OS Grid: SO967123
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 9-3-26
Practice: None
Service: 9:30 am 1st and 2nd Sundays of the month
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Pauline Eccles, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Mary Magdalen
OS Grid: SO920260
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 4
Weight: 15 cwt (anti-clockwise)
Practice: Unringable
Service: none
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by Barbara Pettit
Taken by Keith Reading
Dedication: St. Peter
OS Grid: SO943194
Entrance What3Words: rehearsed.opposites.bloodshot
Bells: 8
Weight: 9-1-14
Practice: Monday 7:30 - 8:45 pm
Service: 9:15-9:50 am and 5 pm (the latter will be a quarter peal)
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by Jenni Scruton
Dedication: St. Mary
OS Grid: SO970240
Entrance What3Words: host.curry.gravel
Bells: 8
Weight: 12-1-22
Practice: Tuesday 7:30 - 9 pm
Service: 10:15 am, and 5:45 pm quarter peal by arrangement
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Church Website
Taken by © Copyright Philip Halling, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Andrew
OS Grid: SP032217
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 3
Weight: 7 cwt
Practice: Thursday 7:30 - 9 pm, but phone first
Service: 10:30 - 11 am 3rd and 4th Sundays 10:30 - 11 am
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by Barbara Pettit
Dedication: St. Michael and All Angels
OS Grid: SP069343
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 11-0-0
Practice: No practice
Service: none
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website
Taken by © Copyright Dave Bushell, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Peter
OS Grid: SP061323
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 5
Weight: 11-0-2
Practice: No practice
Service: 8:45 - 9:30 am 2nd Sunday
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Pauline Eccles, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Lawrence
OS Grid: SO935249
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 10-1-4
Practice: No practice
Service: 6 pm
Show On Map Peal Records Dove
Taken by © Copyright Dave Bushell, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Andrew
OS Grid: SP035331
Entrance What3Words:
Bells: 6
Weight: 6-2-0
Practice: No practice (was Thurday 7:30 - 9 pm)
Service: none
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Tower Website Church Website
Taken by © Copyright Steve Edge, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Peter
OS Grid: SP023283
Entrance What3Words: consoles.league.remainder
Bells: 8
Weight: 11-2-11
Practice: Wednesday 7:30 - 9 pm
Service: 9:45 am
Show On Map Peal Records Dove Church Website
Taken by © Copyright Jennifer Luther Thomas, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Dedication: St. Martin of Tours
OS Grid: SO961303
Entrance What3Words: underline.spenders.reap
Bells: 6
Weight: 4-3-8
Practice: Saturday 3rd Saturday of each month 10:30 - 12 noon
Service: 10:30am 4th Sunday of each month

Many of the branch tower photographs have been taken from Geograph, sponsored by Ordnance Survey. The copyright remains invested in the attributed originator, but the images are distributed under the Creative Commons Licence, and hence may be freely reproduced here.

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Ringing day/times at a glance

Monday

  • Cheltenham, St. Mark - 7:15 - 9:00 pm
  • Leckhampton - 7:30 - 8:45 pm

Tuesday

  • Charlton Kings - 7:30 - 9 pm
  • Prestbury - 7:30 - 9 pm

Wednesday

  • Alderton - (alternating with Dumbleton) 7:45 - 9 pm
  • Bishop's Cleeve - 7:30 - 9 pm
  • Cheltenham, Warden Hill - 7:00 - 8:30 pm
  • Childswickham - 7:30 - 9 pm
  • Dumbleton - (alternating with Alderton) 7:45 - 9 pm
  • Winchcombe - 7:30 - 9 pm

Thursday

  • Cheltenham Minster - 7:30 - 9 pm (12 Bell Practice on the first Thursday of every month)
  • Sevenhampton - 7:30 - 9 pm, but phone first

Friday

  • Badgeworth - 7:30 - 9 pm (but check first)

Saturday

  • Woolstone - 3rd Saturday of each month 10:30 - 12 noon

Sunday

  • 8:45 - 9:30 am 3rd Sunday - Didbrook
  • 8:45 - 9:30 am 2nd Sunday - Stanway
  • 9:15 - 10:00 am and 5:45 - 6:30 pm (pm - quarter peals first Sunday) - Charlton Kings
  • 9:15 am - Cheltenham, Warden Hill
  • 9:15-9:50 am and 5 pm (the latter will be a quarter peal) - Leckhampton
  • 9:30 am 1st and 2nd Sundays of the month - Elkstone
  • 9:45 am (Alternating with Dumbleton) - Alderton
  • 9:45 am (alternating with Alderton, phone first) - Dumbleton
  • 9:45 am - Winchcombe
  • 10:00 - 10:30 am - Childswickham
  • 10:15 - 11 am, 2nd Sundays 2:45 pm Quarter Peal or by arrangement. - Cheltenham Minster
  • 10:15 am, and 5:45 pm quarter peal by arrangement - Prestbury
  • 10:20 am - Badgeworth
  • 10:30 am - Bishop's Cleeve
  • 10:30 - 11 am 3rd and 4th Sundays 10:30 - 11 am - Sevenhampton
  • 10:30am 4th Sunday of each month - Woolstone
  • 11:30 - 12:15 am (also 9:30 - 10:00 am Wednesday for the communion service) - Cheltenham, St. Mark
  • 6 pm - Swindon Village

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Alternative Tower Information Formats

The resources in this section are dynamically generated from the latest information above.

Google Earth If you have already installed Google Earth, you can plot all the branch towers in it with "Cheltenham Branch Towers.kml".
TomTom SatNav If you use TomTom satellite navigation, you can add all the branch towers as "Points of Interest" (OV2 format POI file).
SatNav POI icon You may also like to save this icon image file to your SatNav device too.

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