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Allesley, All Saints, West Midlands,
	Bells	8; 12-0-0 in G#
	Grid Reference	140/302806
	Postcode:	CV5 9ES
	District	Coventry
	Peals	Felstead Database
	Recording
	Practice Night:	Tuesday 7:30pm-9:00pm
	Service Ringing:	9:30am - 10:00am; 5:30pm - 6:00pm (QP some first Sunday evenings)
	Contacts:	Mrs L Grove 22 Wingrave Close, Allesley, Coventry CV5 9BT Dr I D Thompson 63 St Martins Road, Finham, Coventry CV3 6FD

History

On the North West edge of Coventry this is a pleasant village that is just separate from the city itself. Of Norman origin, the church has been much altered, a major restoration taking place in mid-Victorian times. There is plenty of parking behind the church, up the small road, Rectory Road, opposite "The Rainbow", a pub that is the ringers' "apres ring" venue.

There are 8 bells - the 8¼cwt anticlockwise 5 being completely rehung clockwise and augmented by adding a tenor and recasting the (15th Century!) 3rd in 1901; two trebles being added to complete the octave in 1946/7, at which time the existing 6 bells were rehung on ball bearings using the original headstocks. The "new" trebles occupy the pits for the existing trebles; these being hung in two parallel "lowside" pits installed above the original frame. The bells were cast in late 1946 and hung in 1947.

During 2011 replacement bells for the tonally weak third and fourth were installed.  The existing third has been sold to a bellhanger for an augmentation project and the fourth has been hung dead as a service bell in the upper level of the frame.

Entrance is by an outside door on the south side of the tower. Remember to duck if you are tall!

The frequency of the tenor has been measured and it equates to G#-47c and therefore the ring is in G# and not G as has always previously been stated.