Lenton
Holy Trinity

Bells

The western tower has a ring of eight bells that was restored during 1999-2001. A new fabricated steel frame for eight bells was also installed by Hayward Mills Associates and the bells were rehung with new fittings.

 

Inscription

Founder

 Dated

Diameter

Weight
(cwt)

1.

[Vine leaf decoration]

Waist:
IN MEMORIAM
DOROTHY DAWSON
OF GEDLING,
1907-1998.

Reverse waist:
19(T)99

John Taylor
Bellfounders Ltd

 1999

25.13”

4.2.16

 

2.

MEARS & STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON, 1902.

Waist: “GIVE PEACE IN OUR TIME O LORD”

 

W. ROBERT LOVATT, PRIEST IN CHARGE

HAROLD G. LOW

}

 

LINFORD G. STEVENS  

}

CHURCHWARDENS

19(T)96

 

Reverse waist:
RECAST BY THE
SOUTHWELL DIOCESAN GUILD
OF CHURCH BELL RINGERS
TO MARK THE
50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF ITS FOUNDATION

 

John Taylor
Bellfounders Ltd

 1996

25.88"

4.3.16

 

3.

‘LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US’

GEORGE BROWNE  VICAR
THOMAS HOPKINS  CURATE
THOMAS ADAMS  LACE MERCHANT
CHURCHWARDEN JOHN SHAW
TANNER AND FELLMONGER CHURCHWARDEN

Waist:  ‘CROWN’

John Taylor & Son

 1856

27.38”

4.3.15

 

4.

‘CHRIST HAVE MERCY UPON US’


Text as bell no.3. 

 

John Taylor & Son

 1856

28.88”

5.1.12

5.

Text as bell no.3.

John Taylor & Son

 1856

30.00”

5.1.16

6.

‘O LORD SAVE THE QUEEN’

Text as bell no. 3.

John Taylor & Son

 1856

31.88”

5.1.24

7.

 

Thomas II Mears

 1842

33.00”

6.1.6

8.

‘+ HALLELUJAH’

John Taylor & Son

  

36.50”

8.0.2
The bells

The original Bell 2 and Bell 3 were paid for by Albert and Frederick Ball.

Bell 7 was installed when the church was opened in 1842.

In 1902 the bells were augmented to 8.

The seventh bell was the first purchased when the church was built in 1842, with funding from Mr. Shaw.

The ring was opened on 12 June 1856 by the Nottingham Ringers.

In 1925 Sir Albert Ball presented a hand bell to the church.

The church guide states that the bells have not been rung recently due to the need for restoration work.