Part of the frame and most of the bells date from this time, one of which is shown above. Between 1677 and 1719 he cast a number of bells for parishes in South Wales and Herefordshire. The Clyro bells were restored by John Wamer and Son in 1887 for the sum of 128.80 and were first rung on 24th June 1887, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Routine repairs and maintenance are carried out by tower captains and local craftsmen. The Anthony family, many of whom have been skilled bellringers as well as craftsmen since Kilvert's time, have probably had a great deal to do with keeping the fittings in good order during the past 100 years.
Church bells are an important past of our history and our heritage.
They have been rung as a call to worship, to announce the passing of a soul, or of a year, as a warning of impending danger, and as a means of expressing the nation's joy and gratitude. They rang as the Spanish Armada approached in 1588. They were silent when the men who had rung them left to fight in the two World Wars. So many of the men never returned from the Great Way that women began to ring to make up the numbers in the bands. This coincided with the mounting of bells on ball-bearings in many towers, which makes them far lighter to handle.