Love's Guide to

The Bells of the City of London

Current bells

Places with bells hung for full circle ringing are given in capitals.

All Hallows London Wall, London Wall (2 bells. 12 cwt approx.)
All Hallows Staining, Mark Lane (Formerly 6 bells, 8-2-21. )
All Hallows-by-the-Tower, Great Tower Street (A chime of 18 bells plus 2 disused bells. 41-3-0)
St Alban Wood St, Wood St (Formerly 2 bells, 4 cwt approx. )
St Alphage, London Wall (Formerly 2 bells, 14 cwt. )
St Andrew by the Wardrobe, Queen Victoria St (3 bells hung dead and chimed with Ellacombe hammers. 8-0-8)
ST ANDREW HOLBORN, Holborn Circus (8 bells hung for full circle ringing. 18-1-21)
St Andrew Undershaft, Leadenhall St (6 bells hung for dead in old ringing frame and disused. 13-2-6)
St Anne & St Agnes, Gresham St (Single bell hung for full circle ringing.. 3 cwt approx.)
St Augustine, Watling St (Formerly 1 bell, 6 cwt approx. )
ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT, Smithfield (5 bells hung for full circle ringing and a clock bell. 5½ cwt approx.)
St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield (3 bells hung dead in old ringing frame and rung with Ellacombe hammers. 6¾ cwt approx.)
St Benet Paul's Wharf, Paul's Wharf (2 bells. 5 cwt approx.)
St Botolph-without-Aldersgate, Aldersgate (2 bells hung dead with electronic hammers. 12-0-14)
ST BOTOLPH-WITHOUT-ALDGATE, Aldgate (8 bells hung for full circle ringing. 25-0-7)
ST BOTOLPH-WITHOUT-BISHOPSGATE, Bishopsgate (8 bells hung for full circle ringing. 17-1-6)
ST BRIDE, Fleet St (Single bell hung for full circle ringing. 15-0-8)
ST CLEMENT EASTCHEAP, Eastcheap (Single bell hung for full circle ringing without stay or slider. 6¼ cwt approx.)
ST DUNSTAN-IN-THE-WEST, Fleet St (10 bells hung for full circle ringing plus 2 clock bells hung dead. 10-3-23)
ST EDMUND KING & MARTYR, Lombard St (2 bells hung for full circle ringing but derelict. 14¾ cwt approx.)
St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate (2 bells hung for swing chiming. )
ST GILES-WITHOUT-CRIPPLEGATE, Cripplegate (13 bells hung for full circle ringing (ring of 12 plus sharp 2nd). 34-0-6)
St Helen Bishopsgate, Bishopsgate (3 bells hung dead and chimed with internal hammers. 4¾ cwt approx.)
ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE (THE ROYAL JUBILEE BELLS), Garlick Hill (8 bells hung for full circle ringing, 2 bells hung dead and service bell hung for swing chiming but chimed with a fixed electronic hammer. 9-1-25)
ST KATHARINE CREE, Leadenhall St (6 bells hung for full circle ringing and disused clock bell hung dead. 9-3-18)
ST LAWRENCE JEWRY, Gresham St (8 bells hung for full circle ringing plus a small bell hung dead. 24-3-2)
ST MAGNUS THE MARTYR, LONDON BRIDGE, Lower Thames St (12 bells hung for full circle ringing plus clock bell hung dead. 26-3-9)
St Margaret Lothbury, Lothbury (3 bells hung dead in old ringing frame rung with Ellacombe hammers. 8-2-23)
ST MARGARET PATTENS, Eastcheap (Single bell hung for full circle ringing and small bell hung dead. 6-0-6)
St Martin Orgar, Cannon St (Single clock bell. )
St Martin-within-Ludgate, Ludgate Hill (Service bell sitting on floor of belfry and small bell on display in the church. 3½ cwt approx.)
St Mary Abchurch, Cannon St (Single bell hung dead. 5-3-20)
St Mary Aldermary, Queen Victoria St (Single bell hung dead with a rope attached to the clapper.. 4-3-14)
ST MARY LE BOW, Cheapside (12 bells hung for full circle ringing. 41-3-21)
St Mary Somerset, Upper Thames St (Formerly 1 bell, 5 cwt approx.. )
ST MARY WOOLNOTH, Lombard St (2 bells hung for full circle ringing and small bell hung for full circle ringing. 13½ cwt approx)
ST MICHAEL CORNHILL, Cornhill (12 bells hung for full circle ringing plus 3 bells hung dead, 1 of which has a chiming hammer. 32-1-6)
St Michael Paternoster Royal, College Hill (Single bell hung for swing chiming with lever (disused). 2¾ cwt approx.)
St Nicholas Cole Abbey, Queen Victoria St (Single bell. 4-3-9)
ST OLAVE HART ST, Hart St (8 bells hung for full circle ringing and single bell hung dead and disused. 11-3-20)
St Olave Old Jewry, Old Jewry (Formerly 3 bells, 11 cwt approx. )
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, Ludgate Hill (13 bells hung for full circle ringing forming a ring of 12 and an extra earlier bell, plus 2 quarter chimes, an hour bell and a bourdon. 61-2-22)
St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London (Single bell hung for swing chiming. 3-3-3)
St Peter-upon-Cornhill, Cornhill (Single bell hung for full circle ringing but derelict plus single unhung bell. 10¾ cwt approx.)
ST SEPULCHRE WITHOUT NEWGATE, Holborn Viaduct (12 bells hung for full circle ringing plus bell hung dead. 28-2-16)
St Stephen Walbrook, Walbrook (Single bell hung for swing chiming with a lever plus an unhung bell. 9½ cwt approx.)
ST VEDAST FOSTER LANE, Foster Lane (6 bells hung for full circle ringing. 16-2-12)
Temple Church, Temple (1 bell hung dead. 9 cwt approx.)

Love's Guide to the Church Bells of the City of London