Grid Reference:-
140/363908
Postcode:
CV11 4LU
Bell Audio:-
Hear the bells
Guild Affiliation:-
Coventry DG
Peals Rung Here:-
Felstead Database
Sunday Ringing:-
1745 - 1830
Practice Night:-
Wednesday
1930 - 2100 (exc 1st)
District 10-bell practice on
first Monday of each month
History Of The Bells
This church is situated on the Coventry side of Nuneaton and can be missed by the unwary. It is just off the A444 by a large roundabout over which a railway viaduct stands. This church is well known as the author George Eliot, (Mary Ann Evans) was born in this parish and the tenor bell was cast in her memory. The church itself suffered much damage during WWII and was rebuilt by German prisoners of war.
The bells were augmented from 3 to 8 in the 1907, (the existing bells, tenor being 6-3-3, being recast with facsimile inscriptions on 6, 7 & 8. These were all by Hugh Watts of Leicester, treble and tenor 1616 and the middle bell 1639), and then further to 10. The back eight were rehung on ball bearings in 1944 and the new trebles, cast in 1946, were added in 1947 (dedicated on 17 May 1947.) Bells 1 and 3 are hung above in the new frame of 1946-7.
There is a piece of timber from the old frame - dated 1601 - preserved in the ringing room, very early for a dated frame. There is an Ellacombe chiming apparatus in the intermediate chamber. The clock chimes are removed via the use of an electonic switch situated behind the treble.
The entrance is on the South side of the tower and there is parking in the in the car park for residents of the next door retirement homes. Additonal parking on the west side of the churchyard, up the B4113 "Coventry Road" or in the Crafts Centre car park on the opposite of the road at the east end of the church, on the A4524, "Avenue Road".
Details Of The Bells
1 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1946 3-1-09 23.125" 1874.0Hz 2 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1946 3-2-14 24.00" 1673.0Hz 3 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 3-2-27 24.50" 1491.0Hz 4 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 3-3-14 25.50" 1401.0Hz 5 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 4-1-07 27.50" 1244.0Hz 6 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 4-3-10 29.25" 1114.0Hz 7 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 6-0-03 32.00" 990.5Hz 8 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 7-0-23 34.00" 933.0Hz 9 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 9-1-12 37.50" 836.0Hz 10 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1907 13-1-24 42.50" 743.0Hz
Photo Gallery
The old bells photographed on October 23rd 1907 |
The bells, which had been re-cast from the old three. These are known as the "Shepperton" bells. |