Looking up inside a large old church: rows of stone arches, high windows and a painted wooden ceiling.
Eight Bells

The ringers of St Aidan's-in-the-Marsh

Sunday service

9.30 am

Practice night

Tuesdays, 7.30

Weddings

by request

Quarter peals

monthly

Learners

always welcome

Come and ring

Ringing since 1754

Eight bells · tenor 14 cwt

What we ring for

Eight bells hung for full-circle ringing, rung by hand from a room halfway up the tower. They call the village to church, as they have for two hundred and seventy years, and mark the days that matter to the people below.

  1. Sunday service
  2. Weddings
  3. Funerals, half-muffled
  4. Christmas and Easter
  5. Remembrance Sunday
An old bronze bell with a thick rope hanging against a dark green background.
Looking down the worn dark wooden steps of a narrow spiral staircase.

Fourteen ringers from eleven to eighty-three, a tower captain who is a retired postman, and a kettle in the ringing room that has seen more practice nights than any of us.

  1. Forty-two steps to the ringing room
  2. No musical training needed
  3. Every learner taught one to one
  4. Part of the Lincoln diocesan guild
  5. Tea and biscuits after practice
Learn more about us

A year in the tower

We ring around two hundred times a year. Some of them are on the calendar; some of them we find out about on a Thursday.

A small stone church with a stone path leading to its arched wooden door.
Sunday serviceEvery week, rung for half an hour before the 10 o'clock.
A dark bronze bell hanging from an iron bar against a pale wall.
Restoring the fifthRecast in 2025 after a crack found at Easter.
A stone spiral staircase seen from below, winding up towards a bright opening.
Open tower dayTwo hundred visitors up the steps in one September afternoon.
An old stone church with a square tower and a churchyard of leaning gravestones under bare trees.
Remembrance SundayRung half-muffled, then open, at eleven.
Two hands coiling the end of a thick hemp rope.
New ropesEight ropes, spliced by hand, paid for by the village fair.
A bronze bell seen from below, hanging from a wooden beam against a blue sky.
Ringing outingSix towers in a day across the Wolds.
A grey stone church with a tall tower and arched windows beside a stone path.
Forty-one weddingsRung for every couple who asked, and two who did not.
A pale stone spiral staircase curling down in a tight spiral. Close-up of two hands working a coil of braided rope.

Before your first climb

  1. Wear flat shoes with a good grip. The steps are old and uneven.
  2. Come on a Tuesday at seven. A learner's first lesson takes half an hour.
  3. Leave rings and long scarves at home. Ropes catch on everything.
  4. Expect to handle one bell, with a teacher, for the first few weeks. Nobody rings alone until they are ready.