Laxton St Michael

Bells

Bells and frame Belfry openings
with brick arches

There are six bells. The wooden frame, a compound structure mainly comprising Elphick V and W braces (Pickford types 6B and 6D) but also intersecting X braces (Pickford type 6I) at the east end, probably dates from the restoration in 1860. The bells were re-hung on metal head stocks and ball bearings by Taylors of Loughborough in 1956.

The second bell was by Immanuel Halton of South Wingfield in 1721. The bell was cast without canons as he ran short of metal! An agreement was reached at the time that if it ever broke because of a lack of canons he would re-cast it free of charge.

  Inscription Cast Size Weight
1

CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1862

PATENT

AN OFFERING FROM
RENIRA H A MARTIN TO
LAXTON CHURCH
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
GEORGE MARTIN
HER BROTHER HENRY B A BENTINCK
AND HER UNCLE CHARLES HERBERT
2ND EARL MANVERS 1863

 John Warner
1862		 30¼" 5.2.25
2

GOD WILL REWARD MY BENEFACTORS MDCCXXI

 Immanuel Halton
1721		 33½" 6.1.7
3

CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1862

PATENT

 John Warner
1860		 33½" 6.3.14
4

GOD SAVE OVR QVEEN

 Henry II Oldfield
1591		 35¼" 8.1.2
5

bendicta scl sca trenetas

 Seliok family
c1500		 39" 10.0.1

6
F

GOD : SAVE : OVR : CHVRCH : OVR : QVEENE : AND : REALME : AND : SEND : VS : PEACE : IN : CHRIST : AMEN 1599

 Henry II Oldfield
1599		 40¾" 12.2.10