Rempstone All Saints

Bells

The bell frame

The western tower contains a ring of six bells. The bells were hung for full circle ringing in a low sided iron frame by Taylors of Loughborough in 1974/5 with new fittings including metal headstocks and ball bearings. The treble was added at the same time. It is by Taylors and the back five are by Thos I Hedderly, cast when the new church was built.

	Inscription	Size	Weight
1	Waist: 1975 Reverse: IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM AND FANNY STUBBS	25"	3.2.6
2	THE GIFT OF MR IOHN DAVYS IUNR TH 1773	27"	3.3.8
3	GOD BE OUR SPEED THOMAS HEDDERLY FOUNDER 1773	28"	4.1.10
4	GLORY BE TO GOD ON HIGH THOS HEDDERLY FOUNDER 1772	30"	5.0.14
5	FOR CHURCH AND KING WE ALL WAYS RING T HEDDERLY 1772	32¼"	6.1.21
6 A	THE CHURCHIS PRAISE I SOU ALL WAYS THO HEDDELRY 1772	33¾"	6.1.26

The old frame and fittings have been preserved and are now housed in the Churches Conservation Trust church at Saundby.

A faculty to provide a bell chiming [Ellacombe] apparatus in the vestry was made in 1952. A letter from John Taylor, The Bell Foundry, Loughborough to the rector confirmed that:

… we instructed our fitter … to take off the bell ropes so that it would not be possible to swing the ropes. … and we advise that no attempt be made to swing the bells whilst they are in this condition.

A new set of ropes was dedicated in 2010, and a plaque placed in the vestry reading:

ALFRED ELLIS (1929-2004)

A set of new bell ropes was donated to
Rempstone Church in 2010
by Ellis & Pritchard Ropes
in memory of Alf Ellis
Ropemaker and former
Resident of Rempstone