Sneinton
St Christopher

Bells

St Christopher’s has a single bell housed in a brick and stone bell-cote set over the west gable of the church. It was cast at the John Taylor works in Loughborough for the new church in 1910. It has a single line of leaf decoration, but no inscription. The bell weighs 2cwt 2qr 1lb, measures 23" and is tuned to F sharp. Ringing is achieved by a bell rope directed into the church close to the west gable.

The bellcote at
the west end		 The bell-bracket on the
buttress on the north
side of the chancel

In 1996 repairs costing £3347 were carried out to the stonework of the bell-cote and the bell ringing mechanism. The company who carried out the work was Hayward Mills Associates.

A second bell originally hung from an iron bracket bolted to a buttress supporting the north wall of the chancel. This bell was directly over the vestry roof. The bracket is still in situ. It was supplied by the same foundry, but was slightly smaller with a 21" diameter and lighter weighing 1.3.22. Like the main bell, it was tolled by a rope leading directly into the building below. The bell was also in regular use until the late 1970s or early 1980s, when concerns over safety prompted its removal. For a number of years it was housed inside the church, before being gifted to the then newly built church, dedicated to St Martha the Housewife, on the Broxtowe Estate on the north-west of Nottingham.