All Saints
George Row,
Northampton
NN1 1DF
Tower Details
Number of bells 10 Tenor weight (cwt-qr-lb) 17-0-4 (E) Correspondent Bridget Paul Telephone 01604 832291 Address 38 High Street
Harpole
Northampton
NN7 4DHbridgetpaul38@gmail.com Map Link Click for MAP Ground Floor Ring NO Other Information
Bell Weights and Casting Information Bell
Weight
(cwt-qr-lb)Note Date Cast Cast By 1 4-0-26 G# 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 2 4-2-2 F# 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 3 5-0-2 E 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 4 5-2-2 D# 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 5 6-0-4 C# 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 6 6-1-14 B 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 7 7-0-12 A 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 8 9-0-5 G# 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 9 12-2-0 F# 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough 10 17-0-4 E 2006 Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd, Loughborough Inscriptions on the bells
Treble – CORPUS CHRISTI
AD CENAM AGNI PROVIDI
STOLIS SALUTIS CANDIDI
POST TRANSITUM MARIS RUBRI
CHRISTO CANAMUS PRINCIPI2nd – THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
AD CENAM AGNI PROVIDI
STOLIS SALUTIS CANDIDI
POST TRANSITUM MARIS RUBRI
CHRISTO CANAMUS PRINCIPI3rd – ST ANNE
GOOD ST ANNE
MOTHER OF HER WHO IS
OUR LIFE OUR SWEETNESS
AND OUR HOPE
PRAY TO HER FOR US4th – ST OSYTH
DELIVER US
FROM FIRE, FROM WATER
AND FROM ALL MISADVENTURE5th – ST JAMES
LORD
WHO SHALL SIT BESIDE THEE
ENTHRONED ON EITHER HAND
WHEN CLOUDS NO LONGER HIDE THEE
AND ALL THY FAITHFUL BAND?6th – ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
DEUS
PRO SUA INFINITA CLEMENTIA
ECCLESIAE SUAE PACEM
ET UNITATEM CONCEDAT,
AUGUSTISSIMAM REGINUM
NOSTRAM ELIZABETHAM CONSERVET
ET PACEM UNIVERSO RENO
ET OMNIBUS CHRISTIANIS LARGIATUR7th – ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
SERVA REGINAM, DOMINE,
DA PACEM IN DIEBUS NOSTRIS,
ET EXAUDI NOS IN DIE
QUOCUMQUE INVOCAMUS TE.8th – ST GEORGE
TO GEORGE OUR SAINT
THOU GAVEST GRACE
WITHOUT ONE FEAR
ALL FOES TO FACE
AND TO CONFESS
BY FAITHFUL DEATH
THAT WORD OF LIFE
WHICH WAS HIS BREATH9th – THE HOLY ROOD
WITH JOY
I TAKE THIS CROWN OF THORN
THOUGH SHARP
YET EASY TO BE BORNTenor – THE HOLY TRINITY
I BIND UNTO MYSELF TODAY
THE STRONG NAME OF THE TRINITY
BY INVOCATION OF THE SAME
THE THREE IN ONE AND ONE IN THREEHistory
The present church was built in the last years of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth century following the destruction of its predecessor during the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675. The crypt and parts of the tower are all that remain of that church.
Six bells originally hung in the tower, and these were replaced in 1782 by a peal of eight with a tenor of 23cwt cast by the London bell founders, Chapman & Mears. These bells were rehung in a new metal frame in 1906 by the Oxfordshire bell hanging firm of Webb & Bennett who came from Kidlington, north of Oxford. The canons were removed from the bells at this time. In 1935 the bells were retuned and rehung in the same frame but with new fittings by John Taylor & Son of Loughborough, Leicestershire. The tenor weight now was 21 and a half cwt. The first peal on the bells, Plain Bob Major, was rung on 5th November 1784. Forty peals were rung on these bells.
In 2006 these bells were removed and a new peal of ten bells installed, all work being carried out by Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd of Loughborough. Each of the new bells has been named, and these are, from treble to tenor, Corpus Christi, The Blessed Virgin Mary, St Anne, St Osyth, St James, St John the Evangelist, St John the Baptist, St George, The Holy Rood and The Holy Trinity, These were the names of the ten small chapels or altars in the Church of All Saints that was burnt down during the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675. The inscriptions on the new bells, some of which are in Latin, were chosen as being appropriate to the bell’s name. The first peal on the new bells was 5040 Yorkshire Surprise Royal and was rung on 4th February 2007.
In 2016 a simulator was installed with bells 3 to 8 inclusive being wired for use.
Recordings
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