A Quarter peal of 1301 Stedman Cinques with a band consisting of all the current and 8 former officers of the Society was rung today (5/11/2025) to mark the 300th anniversary of the very first peal rung by the Society. The quarter was rung following loss of an attempt at 5300 Stedman Cinques.
This first SCY peal was rung on 5th November 1725 and was the first peal in the tower, and fourth known peal outside Norwich and London, the two centres of ringing at the time.
It is the first recorded peal by the Society of Cambridge Youths, and a memorandum recording the peal can be found in the Society’s earliest surviving accounts book. It was rung on the back eight of the new ring of ten bells cast by Richard Phelps of Whitechapel in 1722–23. This ring replaced an earlier eight, but there is no evidence that the old bells had ever been pealed.
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