The Spurriergate Centre, St Michael's Church, Spurriergate, York YO1 9QR
St Michael’s York Trust Reg Charity 519912 & Spurriergate Trading Ltd Reg 2490408
We have recently invested in new coffee machines & new seating upstairs including comfy armchair type seats and pedestal seats and tables. Call into try & remember you can order all food upstairs too!
Need some Space? Or Looking for a place to hold an event......?
Over the past few years we have helped many people successfully celebrate family occasions and other events by hosting an event in the Centre. For more info please follow the
link to the right
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The Spurriergate Centre has
Run a professional counselling service
since 1999 supporting hundreds of people through difficult times. For more information please follow the link to the left.
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“SUM ROSA PULSATA MUNDI MARIA VOCATA”
(I being rung am named Mary the Rose of the World).
Spurriergate Bells:-
The top stage of St Michael’s tower was removed in 1968, when it was shortened because the structure had become unsafe. This included the belfry stage and the six bells were removed at this point. A new belfry was created in the pyramid cap of the shortened tower and the tenor bell was hung in it for chiming by and electric hammer. The smallest five bells were placed on the floor of the church. The original oak bell frame was removed at this point and destroyed.
In 1986 a full restoration of the peal of six bells was carried out, and the bells
re-
The six bells are of great importance and are as listed in your e mail. The largest or tenor bell was cast in 1466 by Thomas Innocent who cast bells in Leicester and York. It is the only remaining mediaeval bell from York Minster and is inscribed, “SUM ROSA PULSATA MUNDI MARIA VOCATA” (I being rung am named Mary the Rose of the World). Bells 2 – 5 were cast in 1681 by Samuel Smith of York and also hung in York Minster – they are recastings of four bells cast for the Minster in 1471 by John Hoton. The smallest bell was cast in 1765 specifically for St. Michael’s when the other five were transferred from the Minster in exchange for Spurriergates’s three larger bells. It was cast by George Dalton of York.
Tenor Bell rung down and up on its new fittings in St Michaels’ new belfry.
Souce: David E Potter, President,York Minster Society of Change Ringers.
Thomas Innocent Tenor bell at Minster Stoneyard during restoration in 1986.
General view of some of the other bells in the Pyramid Cap Belfry.
Inscription details
from Samuel
Smith Bells.
The five bells that came from York Minster together with a new curfew bell for St Michael’s that was added in 1986 – photographed in the Minster Stoneyard.
