Held in Winchester Cathedral ringing chamber. (Last updated August 2007)
The catalogue lists books individually where we hold multiple copies, but only the two copies in best condition are listed. Books relating to special events (dedications, special services etc) are now held by year in the Archival section, although in the past they may have appeared in the book list. A catalogue of archival material held in Winchester Cathedral or in the Hampshire Record Office (the Guild collection has the reference 20M94) appears elsewhere on this site.
Members of the W&P may borrow books for a period of eight weeks. A number of Winchester Ringers are authorised to issue books, so the collection is normally available at or around the normal ringing times at the Cathedral. Otherwise, please contact the Hon Guild Librarian and Archivist.
Please make use of the Library. As you will see below, it contains a wide-ranging, interesting and useful collection.
Librarian and Archivist
Author etc | Title | Date | Accession | Pages |
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[Periodicals] | Bell News 1881 – 1915 | 1881 – 1915 | ||
[Periodicals] | Campanology 1896 – 1897 | 1896 Sep – 1897 Mar | ||
[Periodicals] | Church Bells 1896, 1897 | 1896, 1897 | ||
[Periodicals] | Church Bells 1897 | 1897 | ||
[Periodicals] | Guild News | 2001 – 2003 | ||
[Periodicals] | Irish Bell News Vols 9, 10 (loose, some editions missing) | |||
[Periodicals] | Newsletters of the Friends of the CC Library 1999 – 2003 | |||
[Periodicals] | Portsmouth Chimes | 2002 | ||
[Periodicals] | Ringing World 1911 – 2006 | 1911 – 2006 | ||
[Periodicals] | WP Newsletter Autumn 1984, 1985 | |||
Adams, J | Alresford Displayed | 1996 | 0199ADA | 40 |
Anon | Surprise Major and Royal Blue Lines (manuscript) | 0179ANO | 30 | |
Appleby, R | Time for a change? | 1997 | 0058APP | 24 |
ASCY | The Ancient Society of College Youths | After 19325 | 0194ASC | 36 |
Ayres, RM | Bells and bellhanging | 1981 | ||
Ayres, RM | Bells and bellhanging | 1981 | 0217AYR | 16 |
Bakes, A | History of the Parish of North Stoneham with Bassett | 1983 | 0165BAK | 12 |
Bakes, A | History of the Parish of North Stoneham with Bassett | 1983 | 0166BAK | 12 |
Banister, W | Art and Science of change ringing | 1879 | 0001BAN | 180 |
Banister, W | Art and Science of change ringing | 1874 | 0176BAN | 166 |
Barnes, J | Unofficial ringer’s handbook | 1982 | 0002BAR | 72 |
Bevis, TA | Story of a Fenland Steeple | 1972(after) | 0132BEV | 40 |
Bleby, E | Their Sound has Gone Forth | 2001 | 0202BLE | 224 |
Bristol URG | Directory of church bell ringers 3rd ed. | 1931 | 0117BRI | |
Bristol URG | Directory of church bell ringers 3rd ed. | 1931 | 0118BRI | |
Bristol URG | Directory of church bell ringers, 4th ed. | 1935 | 0107BRI | 170 |
Bristol URG | Directory of church bell ringers, 4th ed. | 1935 | 0108BRI | 170 |
Bulwer, HE | Glossary of Technical Terms | 1902 | 0115BUL | 84 |
Bulwer, HE | Glossary of Technical Terms | 1902 | 0116BUL | 84 |
Buswell, AJ | A Selection from the Archives of Gillett & Johnston (manuscript) | 1965 | 0210BUS | |
Buswell, AAJ | Selection from the archives of Gillett & Johnson | 1965 | 0133BUS | 388 |
Butler, W | Doubles and Minor for beginners | 1980 | 0061BUT | |
Camp, J | Discovering bells and bellringing | 1968 | 0003CAM | 48 |
CCCBR | Atlas of bells | |||
CCCBR | Central Council handbook | 1978 | ||
CCCBR | Central Council of Church Bell Ringers handbook | 1956 | ||
CCCBR | Change ringing, the history of an English art | |||
CCCBR | Collection of Doubles Methods | 1961 | 0073CCC | |
CCCBR | Collection of Legitimate Methods, section 1 | 1907 | 0144CCC | 46 |
CCCBR | Collection of Legitimate Methods, section 1 | 1907 | 0178CCC | 46 |
CCCBR | Collection of Minor Methods | 1975 | 0085CCC | 138 |
CCCBR | Collection of Peals – Even bell Methods with a plain hunting treble | 1904 | 0094CCC | 124 |
CCCBR | Collection of Peals – Odd bell Treble-dominated Methods | 1903 | 0093CCC | 144 |
CCCBR | Collection of Plain Major and Cater Methods | 1926 | 0084CCC | 62 |
CCCBR | Collection of Triples Methods | 1935 | 0145CCC | 32 |
CCCBR | Conducting Stedman | |||
CCCBR | Formation of a catalogue of peals | 1894 | 0101CCC | 36 |
CCCBR | Formation of a catalogue of peals | 1893 | 0103CCC | 12 |
CCCBR | Handbook | 1956 | 0080CCC | 72 |
CCCBR | Handbook | 1978 | 0082CCC | 44 |
CCCBR | Hints – Proper method of handling a bell rope | 1933 | 0071CCC | 16 |
CCCBR | Hints – Proper method of handling a bell rope | 1948 | 0072CCC | 16 |
CCCBR | Maintenance handbook | 1979 | 0083CCC | 20 |
CCCBR | On conducting | 1980 | 0081CCC | 40 |
CCCBR | Organising a Bell Restoration Project | 1986 | 0181CCC | 24 |
CCCBR | Organising a Bell Restoration Project | 1986 | 0182CCC | 24 |
CCCBR | Preservation & repair of bells, frames & fittings | 1930 | 0074CCC | 34 |
CCCBR | Preservation & repair of bells, frames & fittings | 1948 | 0075CCC | 26 |
CCCBR | Preservation & repair of bells, frames & fittings | 1948 | 0076CCC | |
CCCBR | Preservation & repair of bells, frames & fittings | 1892 | 0102CCC | 32 |
CCCBR | Preservation & repair of bells, frames & fittings | 1892 | 0104CCC | 32 |
CCCBR | Ringing for Service | 1961 | 0109CCC | |
CCCBR | Ringing for Service | 1961 | 0110CCC | |
CCCBR | Rules & decisions of the Council | 1927 | 0078CCC | 56 |
CCCBR | Rules & decisions of the Council | 1927 | 0079CCC | 56 |
CCCBR | Schedule of regular maintenance | 1991 | 0070CCC | 20 |
CCCBR | Sound Management | ?1995 | 0198CCC | 12 |
CCCBR | Stedman Caters & Stedman Cinques | 1961 | 0174CCC | 36 |
CCCBR | Ten & Twelve bell compositions | 1972 | 0148CCC | 18 |
CCCBR | Towers and bells Handbook | 1973 | 0130CCC | 64 |
CCCBR | Treble Dodging Minor Methods | 1979 | 191 | 80 |
CCCBR | Tutor’s handbook Part 2 Elementary Change Ringing | 1969 | 0077CCC | 48 |
CCCBR | Will you call a touch please, Bob? | |||
CCChurches | Conservation and repair of bells and bellframes – code of practice | 1993 | 0089CHU | 28 |
CCChurches | Protection of our English churches | 1934 – 1937 | 0134CHU | 128 |
Clarke, S | Complete fundraising handbook 3rd ed. | 1999 | 0086CLA | 432 |
Colchester, WE | Hampshire church bells (reprint) | 1979 | 0036COL | 118 |
Colchester, WE | Hampshire church bells reprint | 1979 | 0004COL | 118 |
Coleman, S | Bellringer’s bedside companion | 1994 | 0046COL | 418 |
Coleman, S | Method ringer’s companion | 1995 | 0050COL | 436 |
Cook, WT | Bells of St Paul’s | 1981 | 0171COO | 27 |
Cook, WT | Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers | 1979 | 0162COO | 46 |
Corrigan, AJ | 100 Surprise Methods in Place Notation | 1947 | 1063COR | 8 |
Corrigan, AJ | 350 Surprise Royal and Maximus Methods | 1949 | 0143COR | |
Croft, KSB | Journal of the centenary year (Winchester Cathedral 900) | 1979 | 20M94/35 | |
Dalton, C | Bells and Belfries of Dorset I | 2000 | 0211DAL | xxxvi +316 |
Dalton, C | Bells and Belfries of Dorset II | 2001 | 0212DAL | xvi +310 |
Dalton, C | Bells and Belfries of Dorset III | 2005 | 0216DAL | xxii +400 |
Daniel-Tyssen, AD | Church bells of Sussex | 1864 | 0026DAN | 96 |
Davey, J | Ringwood Bells | 2001 | 0201DAV | 40 |
Davies, CDP | Bellringer | 1927 | 0106DAV | 32 |
Davies, CDP | Formation of a catalogue of Peals (x2) | |||
Davies, CDP | Lead ends | 1918 | 0146DAV | 24 |
Davies, CDP | Odds & ends of Grandsire Triples | 1929 | 0005DAV | 22 |
Davies, CDP | Surprise Methods | 1927 | 0037DAV | 128 |
Davies, CDP | Stedman | 1903 | 0188DAV | 268 |
Davis, A | Christchurch bells | 1985 | 0151DAV | 16 |
Dodd, G | Bells and bellringing at St Michael and All Angels, Highclere | 1991 | 0172DOD | 24 |
Dove, R | Guide to the church bells of Britain 2nd ed. | 1956 | 0006DOV | 188 |
Dove, R | Guide to the church bells of Britain 2nd ed. | 1956 | 0038DOV | 188 |
Dove, R | Guide to the church bells of Britain 5th ed. | 1976 | 0047DOV | 198 |
Dove, R | Guide to the church bells of Britain 6th ed. | 1982 | 0051DOV | 206 |
Dove, R | Guide to the church bells of Britain 7th ed. | 1988 | 0087DOV | 214 |
Duckworth, R | Tintinnalogia or the art of ringing (facsimile) | 1970 | 0030DUC | 136 |
E.R.A. | St Mary’s Church, Southampton | After 1938 | 0190ERA | 36 |
Elphick, G | Craft of the bell founder | 1988 | 0007ELF | 128 |
Fenton, R | Ringer’s Notebook | 1972 | 0062FEN | 36 |
Gilks, WL | Rope Splicing | 1972 | 0175GIL | 8 |
Gill, DMH | A Short history of Micheldever Parish & Church | 1966 | 0167GIL | 13 |
Gillgrass, A | Big Ben | After 1940 | 16 | |
Goldsmith, JS | Great Adventure | 1935 | 0008GOL | 132 |
Goldsmith, JS | Great Adventure | 1935 | 0184GOL | 132 |
Guardian reprint | Church bells and bellringing | n.d. | 0119GUA | 44 |
Guardian reprint | Church bells and bellringing | n.d. | 0120GUA | 44 |
Guardian reprint | Church Bells and Bellringing | n.d. | 0209GUA | 36+8 |
Harrison, R | Bells of the Isle | 1935? | 0009HAR | 64 |
Heywood, AP | Bell Towers & bell hanging | 1914 | 0010HEY | 184 |
Heywood, AP | Bell Towers & bell hanging | 1914 | 0039HEY | 184 |
Heywood, AP | CCCBR Rules & decisions | 1891 – 1903 | 0052HEY | |
Heywood, AP | Duffield Method | 1888 | 0122HEY | 120 |
Heywood, AP | Preservation & repair of bells, frames & fittings | 1892 | ||
Heywood, AP | The Duffield Method | 1888 | 0208 HEY | 120 |
Hill | Church bells of Winchester & Hampshire | 1877 | ||
Hodgson, MA | Symbolic Treatment of false course heads | 1962 | 0189HOD | 12 |
Holmes, DA | Bells and Bellringing at St Mary’s Church, Overton | 1987 | 0158HOL | 12 |
Holmes, DA | Bells and Bellringing at St Mary’s Church, Overton | 1987 | 0159HOL | 12 |
Holmes, DA | Church bells of the Basingstoke District | 1987 | 0160HOL | 68 |
Holmes, DA | Church bells of the Basingstoke District | 1987 | 0161HOL | 68 |
Holmes, DA | Laverstoke Church bells | 1989 | 0177HOL | 6 |
Holmes, DA | Short history of All Hallows, Whitchurch bells | 1989 | 0154HOL | 8 |
Holmes, DA | Towers with 3 bells or less in the Basingstoke area | After 1978 | 0170HOL | 54 |
Howes, Revd R | Village bells | n.d. | 0065HOW | 16 |
Howes, Revd R | Village bells 4th ed. | 1947 | 0066HOW | 20 |
Hubbard, H | Elements of campanalogia 4th ed., rev. | 1876 | 0011HUB | 148 |
Hughes, AA | English handbell casting at the Whitechapel Foundry | n.d. | 0185HUG | 16 |
Hughes, AA | English handbell casting at the Whitechapel Foundry | n.d. | 0186HUG | 16 |
Hurcombe | Will you call a touch please Bob? | 1989 | 0035HUR | 40 |
Jennings | Development of British bell fittings | 1991 | 0033JEN | 168 |
Johnson, E | Bell Founding in New Alresford – see Adams Alresford Displayed | 1995 | 0199ADA | |
Johnston, CF | Bells Old & New | 1986 | 0111JOH | 18 |
Johnston, CF | Bells Old & New | 1986 | 0112JOH | 18 |
Johnston, R | Atlas of Bells | 1990 | 0031JOH | 240 |
Johnston, R | Bell ringing, The English art of change ringing | 1975 | 0121JOH | 296 |
Jones | Clavis Campanalogia (type facsimile) | ?1890 | 0029JON | 430 |
Jones, W | New campanalogia (facsimile) | 1975 | 0012JON | 284 |
Ketteringham, JR | Lincolnshire Bells and Bellfounders | 2000 | 0204KET | 370 |
Longridge, J | Standard 70 | n.d. | 0059LON | 68 |
Longridge, J | Composition 500 | 1979 | 0060LON | 76 |
Longridge, J | Composition 501 | 1984 | 0067LON | 80 |
Longridge, J | Conducting and coursing Order | n.d. | 0056LON | 36 |
Longridge, J | Method 300 | 1980 | 0069LON | 76 |
Longridge, J | Quarter 500 | 1980 | 0063LON | 40 |
Lukis, WC | Church bells | 1857 | 0130LUK | 150 |
Matthews, P | Bells of Richmond Hill | 1983 | ||
Meadows, RB | King Edward VI School, Southampton | 1995 | 0193MEA | 18 |
Monk | Campanalogia Improved (type-facsimile) | 1887 | 0013MON | 362 |
Monk | Campanologia Improved (type-facsimile) | 1887 | 0040MON | 362 |
Morris, E | History and art of change ringing | 1931 | 0014MOR | 672 |
Morris, E | History and art of change ringing | 1931 | 0042MOR | 672 |
Morris, E | Legends o’ the bells | ?1952 | 0048MOR | 212 |
Morris, E | Tintinnabula | 1959 | 0053MOR | 176 |
Morris, E | Towers and bells of Britain | 1955 | 0088MOR | 270 |
Nichols, JR | Bells through the ages | 1928 | 0015NIC | 320 |
Parsons, DE | Conducting Stedman | 1989 | 0068PAR | 28 |
Pickford, C | Bellframes, a practical guide to inspecting and recording | 1993 | 0192PIC | 64 |
Portsea St Mary | Consecrated to Prayer (Portsea) | 1989 | 0017POR | 244 |
Powell, ES | Collection of Triples Methods | 1935 | ||
Powell, ES | Ringers’ handbook 9th ed. | 1967 | 0016POW | 134 |
Powell, IP | Observations – Stedman (photo facsimile) | 2000 | 0183POW | 20 |
Price, P | Bells and Man | 1983 | 0200PRI | 288 |
Raven, JJ | Bells of England 2nd ed. | 1907 | 0129RAV | 340 |
Ringing World | Great carillons | 1930(?) | 0113RIN | 16 |
Ringing World | Great Carillons | 1930(?) | 0114RIN | 16 |
Robinson, FE | Among the bells | |||
Roe, IH | Grandsire Doubles and Triples simply explained | 0147ROE | 8 | |
Rolph, JFA | The ‘Peculiar’ of Southwick, Hampshire | 1985 | 0164ROL | 9 |
Sanderson, J | Change ringing, The history of an English art | |||
Scott, SG | Sound Control | ?1960 | 0197SCO | 8 |
Sharpe, F | Church bells of Berkshire Kingsmead Reprint | 1971 | 0018SHA | 404 +plates |
Sharpe, F | Church bells of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark | 1964 | 0041SHA | 78 |
Sheldon, A | St Martin’s Youths | 1953 | 0195SHE | 8 |
Shepherd, EC | Handbook of Grandsire Caters | 1958 | 0173SHE | |
Shepherd, EC | St Martin’s Youths | 1953 | ||
Shipway, W | Campanologia or The Art of Ringing (reprint) | 1886 | 0127SHI | 300 |
Shipway, W | Campanologia or The Art of Ringing (reprint) | 1886 | 0128SHI | 300 |
Simpson, AB | Why bells sound out of tune and how to cure them | 1897 | 0019SIM | 40 |
Smith, RB | Standard methods | 1980 | 0020SMI | 222 |
Snowdon, JW | Double Norwich Court Bob Major | 1884 | 0021SNO | 72 |
Snowdon, JW | Grandsire | 1888 | 0043SNO | 202 |
Snowdon, JW | Grandsire | 1905 | 0124SNO | 240 |
Snowdon, JW | Rope Sight 5th ed. | 1900 | 0049SNO | 140 |
Snowdon, JW | Standard Methods | 1892 | 40 | |
Snowdon, JW | Standard Methods – Diagrams | 1887 | 0206SNO | 40 |
Snowdon, JW | Standard Methods – letterpress 10th ed. | 1945 | 0054SNO | 96 |
Snowdon, JW | Standard Methods – letterpress 12th ed. | 1954 | 0126SNO | 96 |
Snowdon, JW | Standard Methods – letterpress 7th ed. | 1933 | 0125SNO | 92 |
Snowdon, JW | Standard Methods in the art of change ringing – diagrams | 1892 | 0095SNO | 40 |
Snowdon, JW | Treatise on Treble Bob, Part 1 | 1902 | 0096SNO | 98 |
Snowdon, JW? | Appendix (peal compositions) | 1895 | 0187SNO | 138 |
Sottanstall, W | Elements of campanalogia | 1868 | 0142SOT | 986 |
Stevenson, J | A History of the Ladies’ Guild 1912 – 2000 | 2000 | 0203STE | 192 |
Taylor | Right way to conduct meetings | 1987 | 0032TAY | 128 |
Thurlow, AGG | Church bells & ringers of Norwich | 1947 | 0022THU | 284 |
Thurlow, AGG | Tower bells & Chimes of Gloucester Cathedral | 1979 | 0153THU | 24 |
Toogood | History of Bramley, Hants | 1993 | 0034TOO | 222 |
Trollope, JA | College Youths | 1937 | 0023TRO | 98 |
Trollope, JA | College Youths | 1937 | 0044TRO | 98 |
Trollope, JA | Grandsire | 1948 | 0055TRO | 122 |
Trollope, JA | Stedman | 1938 | 0097TRO | 150 |
Troyte, CAW | Change ringing 4th ed. | 1880 | 0098TRO | 190 |
Tufts, NP | Art of handbell ringing | 1962 | 0024TUF | 94 |
Tyack, Revd GS | Book about bells | 1898 | 0025TYA | 308 |
Tyack, Revd GS | Book about bells | 1898 | 0131TYA | 308 |
W&PDG | Annual reports | 1981 – 1985 | 0139W&P | ? |
W&PDG | Annual reports | 1986 – 1990 | 0140W&P | ? |
W&PDG | Annual reports 1974 – 1980 | 1974 – 1980 | 0138W&P | ? |
W&PDG | Resource Book for Worship | 1996 | 0180W&P | |
W&PDG | Triennial/annual reports 1960 – 1973 | 1960 – 1973 | 0137W&P | ? |
Walters, HB | Church bells | 1908 | 0027WAL | 160 |
Walters, HB | Church bells of Wiltshire facsimile vols I – III | 1969 | 0090WAL | 350 |
Walters, HB | Church bells of Wiltshire vol III | 1929? | 0045WAL | 350 |
Ward, K | Droxford in the Meon Valley | After 1962 | 0152WAR | 64 |
WDGR | WDGR Annual Reports 1 – 17 | 1881 – 1897 | 0091WDG | 476 |
WDGR | WDGR Annual Reports 18 – 30 | 1898 – 1909 | 0092WDG | 642 |
WDGR | WDGR Annual Reports 31 – 51 | 1910 – 1930 | 0135WDG | |
WDGR | WDGR Annual Reports 52 – 68 | 1931 – 1947 | 0136WDG | |
Wigram, W | Change-Ringing Disentangled | 1880 | 0205WIG | 114+20 |
Wilkinson, PM | Bells of St Martins (in the Fields): a past and two futures | 1988 | 0057WIL | 14 |
Wilson, WG | On conducting | 1960 | 0064WIL | 40 |
Woolley, CW | Change ringing on handbells | 1959 | 0105WOO | 64 |
X-Y-Z | Bells and bellfounding (facsimile) | n.d. | 0028XYZ | 58 |
Yateley, St Peter | St Peter’s Church, Yateley | 1981 | 0132YAT | 44 |
Young, EA | Bell tones and how to observe them | n.d. | 0141YOU | 8 |
Young, EA | English bells and their tuning | 1928 | 0115YOU | 20 |
1st annual report of the Winchester DGR (x5) | 1881 | |||
2nd annual report of the Winchester DGR (x5) | 1882 | |||
3rd annual report of the Winchester DGR (x5) | 1979 | |||
Account of the Society of Union Scholars | 1877 | |||
All Saints, Deane: dedication of the bells (x2) | 1983 | |||
All Saints, Hursley: dedication of 10-bell augmentation | 1989 | |||
Alresford Parish Church | After 1970 | 0169ALR | 20 | |
Ancient Society of College Youths, rules & history | 1928 | |||
Attendance book (W&P) | 1957 – 1971 | |||
Attendance book Portsmouth District | 1965 – 1967 | |||
Attendance book Southampton District | 1965 – 1967 | |||
Barimar leaflet | ||||
Bells of Chester Cathedral | ||||
Christ Church, Spitalfields, dedication of the bells | 1972 | |||
Christchurch & Southampton attendance book | 1972 – 1981 | |||
Church bell founding at the Whitechapel bell foundry | After 1951 | 0155WHI | 28 | |
Church of Blessed Mary of Upham: dedication of the bells (x2) | ||||
English handbell casting at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry (x2) | ||||
Forest Parish Church dedication of the bells | 1984 | |||
Glossary of Technical Terms (x6) | ||||
Guild Newsletters | 1986 – 1991 | |||
Guild reports | 1884 – 1989 | |||
Lancashire Association of Change Ringers | 1937 | |||
Lancashire Handbook 1937 ed | 0070LAN | |||
Model code of rules suitable for a company of ringers (x2) | ||||
Peal records for the W&P Guild | 1943 – 1952 | |||
Rules & Diagrams for Instruction of beginners | 1937 | 0100LAN | 92 | |
Rules of the Royal Cumberland Society | 1885 | |||
Rules of the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths | 1931 | |||
Rules of the Society of Royal Cumberlands | 1891 | |||
Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers 40th annual report | 1923 | |||
Shipways art of ringing | 1939 | |||
St James-without-the-Priory-Gate, Southwick dedication | 1989 | |||
St Mary’s bellringers minutes | 1914 – 1938 | |||
St Mary’s Church, Southampton | ||||
St Michael’s, Southampton Peal book (x2) | ||||
Standard 70 | ||||
Taylor Bell Foundry | 0149TAY | 8 | ||
Taylor Bell Foundry | 0150TAY | 8 | ||
Taylor family | 1933 | 0157TAY | 38 | |
Temporary Committee of Management (xS) | 1972 | |||
Treble dodging Minor Methods | 1979 | |||
Tutor’s handbook Part 1 | ||||
Whitechapel Bell Foundry | 1977 | 0156WHI | 16 |