A CASTLE Bromwich church will be ringing the changes over the next 12 months, after raising the money needed to restore its bells.
A few years ago St Mary and St Margaret’s Church launched a full-scale fundraising campaign to return its ageing set of ringers to their former glory.
The bellringing guild had already raised £60,000 and last month the team announced that they had been awarded a further £34,500 by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Following their successful bid for a grant, the team now has sufficient funds to move forward with the restoration project - first conceived almost a decade ago.
Taylor’s, a world-renowned bell foundry in Loughborough, has been approached to repair the existing set of six bells and to cast two more.
St Mary and St Margaret’s has confirmed that the bells will be removed before next Easter and taken away to the Leicestershire town so that work can be completed.
During this period the church tower will be silent, although there are hopes that the new, improved set of eight bells will be installed a couple of months later.
This will mean that they are in place for the 300th anniversary of the set installed by Lord Bridgeman, a local aristocrat, in the early 18th century.
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