Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers
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The authoritative guide for details of bells and change ringing practices in towers around the world.
Joined May 2020
4 members of the Dove Team attended the 2025 DAC Bell Advisors' Conference in Leeds. It included a presentation concerning Dove and proposals for a review of bells listed for preservation. @ccringing
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We have improved the way we display the date of a bell. Where undated, we display the founder's period of activity. When submitting an estimated date for a bell please don't provide anything outside the given period or alert us if you believe the period needs correcting.
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We are pleased to announce the inclusion from today of LIGHTWEIGHT RINGS in Dove, which includes the portable rings. @ccringing
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Pleased to welcome Ryan Faulkner-Hatt to the Dove Team. Ryan is a young ringer from Prittlewell in Essex has a particular interest in engineering and bell history. He has joined the team to work on a new project, more of which will be announced in due course.
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RT @dickonlove: Great news about the £4.68m Lottery grant to the @churchofengland Conservation Grants Scheme supporting bell conservation &….
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The Church of England has been awarded nearly £5 million to fund a ‘much needed’ expansion in work to conserve cultural and historical heritage in parish churches in a grant from The National Lottery...
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4 members of the Dove Team at today's annual meeting of the Central Council of Change Ringers in Exeter. @ccringing @DodgeNeal @dickonlove
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The Great Bells of the British Isles have now been incorporated into the Dove Database! Seen here: @ccringing
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New mapping functionality announced! Map towers by tenor weight or by numbers of ringing reports in BellBoard! @ccringing @theringingworld
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RT @dickonlove: Excited to launch my redesigned website on the Church Bells of Kent. Seeks to be a useful antiquarian resource in this fiel….
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DOVE FOUNDRY FOCUS for Nov 2023.Projects marked as complete in the month, including Tedburn St Mary here.
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We are pleased to welcome Neal Dodge to the Dove Team. He has already started processing updates, specialising in particular on the queue of frame updates. @DodgeNeal @ccringing
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We are sorry to hear of the death of Dove Master, the Rev'd John Baldwin.
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Very pleased to welcome our newest member of the Dove Team. Lewis Benfield from Leics, has joined as a Dove Clerk to help analyse and update Dove with some of the many updates we are gratefully receiving.
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A new Dove feature to customise tower selections has been launched. Instructions on the home page. @ccringing
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RT @DovesGuide: Two new ways of viewing the results of a tower search are now available: by region (pictured here), by the number of bells….
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Two new ways of viewing the results of a tower search are now available: by region (pictured here), by the number of bells and presence of semitone bells. @ccringing #bellringing
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