Welcome to Ringing in Northampton

The town of Northampton has many beautiful and historic churches. This site has been set up to provide information on ringing at the four churches in the centre of the town with peals of bells, All Saints, St Giles, Holy Sepulchre and St Peter. Regular practices are held and Sunday service ringing takes place in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, and visitors are always welcome.

There is also information about the bells of other churches in Northampton.

All ringing towers mentioned on this site are in the area covered by the Northampton Branch of the Peterborough Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers. The branch holds ringing meetings which are usually on Saturdays and other social activities. See the guild website at www.pdg.org.uk for more information.

Practices

Practices are on Wednesdays and rotate between the four churches with ringing taking place at a different tower each week. In the months where there is a 5th Wednesday the practice transfers to one of the towers in the suburbs of the town. Details of forthcoming practices are shown in the event calendar below.

All practices start at 7.45pm and continue until 9pm. Contact details for towers can be found under the towers section of this site.

In addition special practices for those ringing rounds, call changes, plain hunting or Plain Bob Doubles only are held each week preceeding the general practice. These start at 7pm and and will usually be on the front six bells at All Saints ot St Giles.

Sunday service ringing

Regular service ringing takes place at All Saints and Holy Sepulchre. There is ringing before the evening service at All Saints on the first and third Sundays of every month. The service begins at 6pm and the ringers meet at 5.15pm. There is also ringing before the morning service at All Saints on the second and fourth Sundays of every month. The service begins at 10.30am and the ringers meet at 9.45am. There is ringing before the morning service at Holy Sepulchre on the second and fourth Sundays following ringing at All Saints. The service begins at 11.00am and the ringers meet at 10.30am.

St Peter's church is closed and there is no regular service ringing. However the church lies within the parish of All Saints and four times each year the All Saints congregation have a service there. Details of any service ringing are given in the "Forthcoming service ringing" table below.

Service ringing at St Giles is by arrangement.

There is no regular ringing on the fifth Sundays in the month. Instead a quarter peal may be rung or ringing may take place for a special service at one of the churches. Any changes to these arrangements will be given in the "Forthcoming service ringing" table below.

Learning to Ring

If you are thinking of learning to ring or simply want more information about bell ringing please use the contact page to request more information.