Gonalston
St Laurence

Bells

There is a ring of 4 bells in the west tower.

  Inscription Size Weight
1

JOHN TAYLOR & SON FOUNDERS LOUGHBOROUGH 1853

GOD SAVE THIS CHURCH JOHN FRANCKLIN AND WILLIAM DARBY CHURCHWARDENS

 22½" 2.2.25
2

IHS NAZARENVS REX FILI DEI MISERERE 1684

 23" 2.2.5
3

GOD SAVE HIS CHVRCH 1684

C S R F WARDENS

 25¾" 3.0.21
4 D

JOHN TAYLOR & SON, FOUNDERS, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE

GOD SAVE THIS CHURCH REBUILT A:D 1853

CAROLINE
JOHN L.
HARRY
ELIZABETH		   FRANCKLIN
28" 3.3.18

Hung in a two-tier wooden frame of 1852. On the lower beams are incised:

West side   REBUILT BY
East side   W. FAULKS. JOINER 1852

Prior to 1852 and the erection of the tower there was a small wooden frame containing the two middle bells, which are the work of William Noone. Taylors augmented the bells to four, but the tower wrok appears to be Faulks’ work using Taylor headstocks and bearings. He was the local joiner.

The bells were rehung on ball bearings with repaired fittings, and stays and sliders added, by William Saunders of Oxton in 1992.

The bells are rung from the ground-floor-level ringing chamber set beneath the tower. This is separated from the nave by a partition in the western arch of the north aisle.