Bells

The current St Dunstan's band formed in 2007 when we began recruiting and training ringers. We are now a mixed band of learner, intermediate and experienced ringers. If you are interested in learning to ring, joining the band and gaining a group of friends, please contact us at the email address below.

We ring for Sunday morning services (9.15 - 10.00) and regularly for special services. Practices are held on Thursdays (7.30 to 9.30pm). We organize peals, quarter peals, outings and social events, enjoy occasional visits to neighbouring towers and are pleased to welcome visiting bands to our tower too. If you would like to join a practice or book the bells for an outing, quarter peal or peal, please contact the tower secretary at the email address below.

St Dunstan's present 10 bells were cast in 1806 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Three were recast in 1952, when all were rehung in a new frame. But Stepney's bells go much further back in history to the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'. It is said Stepney's are among the finest sounding bells in London. We take great pleasure in ringing them.

To contact the Stepney band by email:
stepneytowersecretary@gmail.com  ​

If you would like to know more about bell ringing in the Docklands area of London, please visit:
http://www.docklandsringers.co.uk/

If you would like to know more about bell ringing in the Greater London area, please visit the association websites:

Central, North & West London
http://www.bellringing.london​

South London 
http://www.surreybellringers.org.uk/General/Introduction.html

East London
http://www.eacr.org.uk/

If you would like to know more about bell ringing in general, please visit: http://www.cccbr.org.uk/

Worshipful Company of Mercers Window

A bell at St Dunstan's

Bull's eyes and targets 
Say the bells of St. Marg'ret's 

Brickbats and tiles 
Say the bells of St. Giles' 

Oranges and lemons 
Say the bells of St. Clement's 

Old shoes and slippers 
Say the bells of St. Peter's 

Two sticks and an apple 
Say the bells at Whitechapel 

Old Father Baldpate 
Say the slow bells at Aldgate 

Maids in white aprons 
Say the bells at St Catherine's
 

Pokers and tongs 
Say the bells of St. John's 

Kettles and pans 
Say the bells of St. Anne's 

You owe me five farthings 
Say the bells of St. Martin's 

When will you pay me? 
Say the bells at Old Bailey 

When I grow rich 
Say the bells at Shoreditch 

Pray, when will that be? 
Say the bells of Stepney 

I do not know 
Says the great bell at Bow