Worshippers from the three small parishes of Eccles, Wilby and Quidenham gathered for a Service of the Word this morning, led by Peter Lotarius. In his address he explained the origins of Mothering Sunday. This is a day to honour mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes 'a child of the church', celebrated since the Middle Ages on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church. More recently the day has become more commercial and is often known as Mothers' Day.Posies created by ladies from All Saints, Wilby and by Heather Doig from St Andrew's Quidenham, were handed out to all members of the congregation, as well as for distribution to relatives and neighbours.
The bells are tuned to the key of F Major and are rung from the ground floor of the tower. Before the electrification of the clock, the clock weights descended into the ringing chamber inside a large 'chute'. In consequence the ringer of the treble (smallest bell) had to be incredibly thin! the first peal on the ring of six was rung on 3rd April 1893 and the first peal on the ring of eight took place on 8th April 1901.The inscriptions on the bells:1. ARNOLD, 8TH EARL OF ALBERMARLE, LT COL. COMG INFTRY C.I.V2. DEO GRATIAS. SECULO XX INCEPTO. EGERTON DE TATTON ET AMICI VICINI D.D. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS, LONDON 1901.3. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS. LONDON. 1891.4. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS. LONDON. 1891.5. + MISSUS DE CAELIS HABEO NOMEN GABRIELIS (cast 1400 - 1450)6. + VIRGO CORONATA DUC NOS AD REGNA BEATA (cast 1400 - 1450)7. - JOHN - DARBIE - MADE - ME - 16778. GEORGE THOMAS 6TH EARL OF ALBERMARLE. CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS. LONDON. 1891.
1888 built by Wordsworth & Maskell of Leeds and placed in the North Transept.2011 Restored and action lightened by W & A Boggis DissThe organ has a considerable amount of carved wood decoration, including two trumpeting angels at the top and a further angel at each side of the attached console. There are twenty-one gilded display pipes (the shortest in the middle, the tallest at the ends). Blowing is electric.Department and Stop listPedal Key action Tr Stop action Me Compass-low C Compass-high f1 Keys 30 1 Soft Bass 16 $ 2 Bourdon 16 Great Key action Tr Stop action Me Compass-low C Compass-high g3 Keys 56 3 Open Diapason 8 4 Pierced Gamba 8 see note 5 Stop'd Diapason 8 6 Dulciana 8 grooved 7 Principal 4 8 Flute Harmonique 4 Swell Key action Tr Stop action Me Compass-low C Compass-high g3 Keys 56 9 Open Diapason 8 grooved 10 Keraulophon 8 grooved 11 Lieblich Gedact 8 12 Viol 8 TC 13 Vox Celeste 8 14 Principal 4 ConsoleConsole type attached Stop type drawstop Pedalboard flat parallel angled jambs; Swell stops arranged in unusual order:- "the Keraulophon andVox Celeste are adjacent, suggesting that they are the “strings”,while the Viol is at the head of the column, above the Principal,suggesting that it may be a keenly-voiced flue intended to be useas a pseudo-reed.CouplersSwell to GreatGreat to PedalsSwell to PedalsSwell Super Octave to GreatSwell Sub Octave to GreatThe two pedal stops are the same pipes and sound identical; evidently,the Soft Bass was to have had wind cut but this is no longer in order;Note: Gt Pierced Gamba:-added knob, pipes removed 1980(c.).
