All Saints’ Bells

The tower at All Saints’, Loughton has a ring of six bells.

Before 1902 there were four bells; the treble had an iron stay and an iron slider. These were rehung around 1866 to 1870 in a new oak frame of medieval design by an engineer from Northampton. The bells are all in line and swing side-by-side in an east-west direction.

The old treble of the four was recast in 1902 by Taylors of Loughborough, and a new treble added in an upper frame consisting of two steel beams spanning the east side of the tower from north to south. A further new bell (the current treble) was added to the upper frame in 1908 by Alfred Bowell of Ipswich.

The bells are rung every Sunday from 9:00 to 9:30 prior to the morning service, and on the first and third Monday of the month from 19:30 to 21:00 for practice.

More information of the bells can be found here.

More information on the bell frames can be found here.

More information on ringing at Loughton can be found here.