Editing Pershore Abbey (section)

===Bells===
Pershore Abbey has a ring of eight bells, of which six were cast by the younger [[Rudhall of Gloucester|Abraham Rudhall]] in 1729. The treble was cast in 1814 by Thomas Mears of the [[Whitechapel Bell Foundry]]. The cracked 4th (also 1729 by Rudhall) was recast by J. Barwell & Sons of Birmingham<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Birmingham Weekly Mercury|date=2 April 1892|title=Mr. James Barwell – Obituary Notice|via=Hosted at Jewellery Quarter Heritage|url=https://jqheritage.co.uk/mr-james-barwell-obituary-notice/|access-date=7 March 2018|archive-date=8 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081547/https://jqheritage.co.uk/mr-james-barwell-obituary-notice/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[[:File:James Barwell.jpg|Barwell advertisement from 1897]]</ref> with "moderate success"<ref>{{cite book|last= Andrews |first=Francis Baugh |title=The Benedictine abbey of SS. Mary, Peter, and Paul at Pershore, Worcestershire |page=18n|year=1901 |place= Birmingham and Pershore |publisher= Midland Educational Co. : Fearnside & Martin|url=https://archive.org/details/benedictineabbey00andruoft/page/n45}}</ref> in 1897, the same year they were rehung. The largest bell (the tenor) is estimated to weigh 25½ cwt (2856 lbs.) and sounds the note D.<ref name=Pershore_Bells>{{cite web |title=Pershore Bells and the Pershore Abbey Society of Bell Ringers |url=http://www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/bells.html |archive-date=5 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805234130/http://www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/bells.html |access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref>

The ringing room, devised as part of Gilbert Scott's 1862-64 restorations, is a metal 'cage' suspended high above the chancel crossing; it is accessed by means of two stone spiral staircases, a walkway through the roof, a squeeze through a narrow passage and a see-through iron staircase.

The bells have the following inscriptions (in capital letters).<ref name=Pershore_Bells/>{{sfn|Andrews|1901|p=18}}
:1. (Treble) "Joseph Martin and Thomas Evans churchwardens 1814"
:2. "Peace and good neighbourhood" 
:3. "Abr Rudhall of Gloucester cast all of us" 
:4. "Barwell Founder Birmingham. Prosperity to the Church of England 1729 Recast 1897"{{refn|The original inscription read simply "Prosperity to the Church of England" {{sfn|Andrews|1901|p=18}} }}
:5. "Prosperity to all our benefactors A R 1729" 
:6. "Walter Marriott and Edmund Gale churchwardens A R 1729" 
:7. "Richard Roberts Esq John Yeend and Thomas Ashfield Gent[leme]n trustees A R 1729" 
:8. (Tenor) "I to the Church the living call: And to the grave do summon all"