# London’s church bells: which towers practise on which night, and what the bells sound like

Through the week, teams of ringers practise in London’s church towers, one rope per bell. Pick a night to see which towers list a practice, then hear their bells and watch the ropes change order.

## Why church bells ring on weeknights

 A band of ringers is practising. Each bell in a ring is rung by one person with a rope, so a tower of eight bells needs eight ringers, and the skill belongs to the band. The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers says most ringers practise once or twice a week and also ring before or after the Sunday service. Dove’s Guide, the ringers’ own database of towers, says it works on the basis that most practices start at around 7.30 pm.

 Of the 169 ringable rings in Greater London and the City that Dove’s Guide lists, 100 name a practice night: 25 on Monday, 24 on Tuesday, 20 on Wednesday, 22 on Thursday, 5 on Friday and 6 on Sunday. None names a Saturday. A further 3 say only “by arrangement” or send you to the tower’s website, and 66 list nothing; at 10 of those Dove notes that ringing is suspended, stopped or not permitted, and for the rest a blank does not mean the bells are silent. Two towers name a second day, so the days add up to more than 100. All but a few of the listed practices are weeknight evenings: a handful fall at lunchtime or in the afternoon, and all six Sunday practices fall between noon and half past five.

 You rarely hear a tune. You hear bells rung in a pattern that changes row by row, which is the next thing to see.

 [CCCBR: learning to ring](https://cccbr.org.uk/bellringing/learn/) · [Dove’s Guide: FAQ](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/help/faqs) · [Dove’s Guide data](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/downloads)

 
 

## What the ringers are doing: ringing the changes

 The simplest thing a band can do is ring its bells in order, from the highest to the lowest, again and again. Ringers call that rounds. Dove’s Guide assumes the bells of a ring are tuned to a major scale, so rounds is that scale heard from the top down.

 Then the order changes. From one row to the next no bell moves more than one place, so that a heavy bell swinging on a full wheel can follow. A rule that keeps producing new rows without repeating one is a method, written as a line of place notation. In the ringing room above, the red line follows bell 1, the treble, and the blue line follows the bell you choose.

 Plain Bob Major on eight bells takes 112 changes to bring the bells back to rounds; Cambridge Surprise Major takes 224. Both figures are computed here from the Central Council’s place notation, with a check that every row is different and the bells end in rounds.

 The rhythm has a hitch built in. After every second row the ringers leave a pause, nominally the length of one bell striking: the handstroke gap. The Association of Ringing Teachers puts a typical row at about two seconds; at the Steady pace a row of eight lasts about the same.

 The count of possible rows grows fast: 5,040 on seven bells, 40,320 on eight, 479,001,600 on twelve. A book on ringing from 1668, Tintinnalogia , written by Richard Duckworth and printed for “F.S.”, the initials of Fabian Stedman, already tabulated them (the printing linked below is the one of 1671). For twelve bells it reckoned seventy-five years, ten months, one week and three days of ringing at 720 changes an hour. “The Ninth Bell Needs Eight Days Without a Pause” on this site works through that arithmetic.

 The phrase was already used figuratively in 1614, when the preacher Thomas Adams wrote of “Phisitians” who “ring the Changes of opinions”.

 [Central Council methods library](https://methods.cccbr.org.uk/) · [ART: accuracy statistics](https://ringingteachers.org/simulator-resources/simulator-software/accuracy-statistics) · [Harrison: striking](https://jaharrison.me.uk/New/Articles/Striking.pdf) · [Tintinnalogia (1671 printing)](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18567/pg18567.txt) · [Adams, The Deuills Banket (1614)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A00888/master/A00888.xml) · [The Ninth Bell Needs Eight Days Without a Pause](https://mariuscomper.uk/al-noualea-clopot/en/)

 
 

## Oranges and Lemons, rung on the towers

 The rhyme names London churches and their bells. Each line below is paired with the tower traditionally matched to it, and the button sounds that tower’s bells at the pitches Dove’s Guide records.

 
- Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement’s. St Clement Danes · 10 bells · 1,090 kg (21-1-23 cwt-qr-lb) · Westminster 
- You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St Martin’s. St Martin-in-the-Fields · 12 bells · 1,486 kg (29-1-1 cwt-qr-lb) · Westminster 
- When will you pay me? say the bells at the Old Bailey. St Sepulchre-without-Newgate · 12 bells · 1,455 kg (28-2-16 cwt-qr-lb) · City of London 
- When I grow rich, say the bells at Shoreditch. Shoreditch, St Leonard · 12 bells · 1,288 kg (25-1-11 cwt-qr-lb) · Hackney 
- When will that be? say the bells of Stepney. Stepney, St Dunstan & All Saints · 10 bells · about 1,461 kg (about 28¾ cwt) · Tower Hamlets 
- I do not know, says the great bell of Bow. St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside · 12 bells · 2,131 kg (41-3-21 cwt-qr-lb) · City of London 

 The earliest printing found, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (1744), is titled “London Bells”. It names Whitechapel, Aldgate and St Katharine’s, then “Oranges and Lemmons” at St Clement’s, the Old Bailey, Fleet Ditch, Stepney and the great bell at St Paul’s. St Martin’s, Shoreditch and Bow are not in it. All three are in print by 1810, in Gammer Gurton’s Garland , where St Martin’s says “Halfpence and farthings”. The candle and the chopper are in none of the 1744, 1810 or 1843 texts; they appear in the fifth edition of Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes of England , reprinted in 1886.

 Beyond “great Bell at Pauls” in 1744, no early text says which church each line means, so the matches above are the traditional ones.

 St Clement Danes first rang the tune on 31 March 1920, the day of its first Oranges and Lemons service for the children of the parish. The church’s website says the bells play it on the hour from 8 am to 9 pm, and in the same place says that bell ringing there is paused during restoration of the steeple (page read on 1 October 2026).

 [Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, 1744 (Wikisource)](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Tommy-Thumbs-Pretty-Song-Book.djvu/51) · [Gammer Gurton’s Garland (Gutenberg)](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34601/34601.txt) · [Halliwell, 1843](https://archive.org/download/nurseryrhymesofe00halluoft/nurseryrhymesofe00halluoft_djvu.txt) · [Halliwell, fifth edition (1886 reprint)](https://archive.org/download/nurseryrhymesofe00hall/nurseryrhymesofe00hall_djvu.txt) · [St Clement Danes: the bells](https://stclementdanesraf.org/bells/)

 
 

## Dates in the life of London’s bells

 Seven dates, each tied to a source.

 
- 1617 

### Cockney is defined by a bell

 Two books of 1617 define a Cockney by Bow bell. John Minsheu’s dictionary says a Cockney is “one borne within the sound of Bow-bell, that is, within the City of London”. The traveller Fynes Moryson writes that Londoners “and all within the sound of Bow-Bell, are in reproch called Cocknies”. By 1600 Samuel Rowlands had already written of a “Bow-bell Cockney”. A 2012 audio study by the consultancy 24 Acoustics for the Times Atlas of London claimed that traffic and aircraft noise had shrunk the area where the bells can be heard to a small area in the City and Shoreditch.

 [Moryson, An Itinerary (EEBO-TCP)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A07834/master/A07834.xml) · [Murray’s dictionary, Cockney](https://wehd.com/17/Cockney_sb.html) · [Evening Standard, 2012](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bow-bells-to-be-given-audio-boost-to-curb-decline-of-cockneys-7880794.html)

 
- 13 June 1940 

### The bells are silenced

 From that Thursday, church bells could be rung only by the military or police, as a warning that enemy troops had landed from the air. Churchill announced that they would be rung for one Sunday morning, 15 November 1942, after El Alamein, adding that they were “not being rung on account of invasion”; they rang again on Christmas Day 1942. From 21 April 1943, in time for Easter, bells could again call people to worship on Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day, and on 27 May 1943 Herbert Morrison told the Commons the ban was revoked. The Ringing World reported that November that, in the City, St Paul’s was “the only peal left which could be rung”. Big Ben went on striking: after a bomb broke the glass of its south dial in May 1941 its chimes were still broadcast as usual.

 [Ringing World, 21 June 1940](https://history.cccbr.org.uk/pdf/rw1526_1940.pdf) · [Hansard, 11 Nov 1942](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1942/nov/11/debate-on-the-address) · [Ringing World, 20 Nov 1942](https://history.cccbr.org.uk/pdf/rw1652_1942.pdf) · [Ringing World, 1 Jan 1943](https://history.cccbr.org.uk/pdf/rw1658_1943.pdf) · [Hansard, 20 Apr 1943](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1943/apr/20/church-bell-ringing-removal-of-ban) · [Ringing World, 7 May 1943](https://history.cccbr.org.uk/pdf/rw1676_1943.pdf) · [Hansard, 27 May 1943](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1943/may/27/church-bell-ringing-removal-of) · [Parliament: the Clock Tower](https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/big-ben/building-clock-tower/how-the-clock-tower-has-changed-over-the-decades/)

 
- 10–11 May 1941 

### Bow Bells fall

 St Mary-le-Bow was shattered in the raid of 10–11 May 1941; its bells, recast in 1933, crashed to the ground and broke. A new twelve was cast at Whitechapel in 1956 (tenor 2,131 kg) and first rung on 21 December 1961, when the Duke of Edinburgh tolled the tenor. The twelve in the tower today are those 1956 castings.

 [Ringing World, 29 Dec 1961](https://history.cccbr.org.uk/pdf/rw2645_1961.pdf) · [St Mary-le-Bow: the bells](https://www.stmarylebow.org.uk/bells/) · [Dove’s Guide: St Mary-le-Bow](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/tower/10588)

 
- 1612 

### “London bells” turn Whittington back

 In the 1612 ballad it is “London bells” that call Whittington back. Bow bells are named in the prose History by “T. H.”, dated 1656 by the Dictionary of National Biography and about 1670 by Wheatley. The real Richard Whittington was appointed mayor by Richard II in June 1397 and elected in 1397, 1406 and 1419. A City of London learning page says his money built a public lavatory of 128 seats on the Thames bank, flushed by the tide.

 [Dictionary of National Biography, Whittington](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Whittington,_Richard) · [Johnson’s 1612 ballad, quoted in Wheatley (1885)](https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60380/pg60380.txt) · [Lord Mayor’s Show: Whittington](https://lordmayorsshow.london/history/dick-whittington) · [City of London Learning Zone (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20150128114438/http://www.learningzone.cityoflondon.gov.uk/schoolmate/City/sm_city_stories_detail.asp?ID=316)

 
- 1858 

### Big Ben is cast

 The Great Bell of Westminster was cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in April 1858, after the first bell, cast near Stockton-on-Tees in 1856, developed a 1.2 m crack in testing. The clock started on 31 May 1859 and the bell first struck on 11 July.

 [Parliament: key dates](https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/big-ben/building-clock-tower/key-dates-/)

 
- 22 March 2017 

### The last tower bells

 Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast its last batch of tower bells at Whitechapel on 22 March 2017. Dove’s Guide files 811 of the 1,415 bells in London’s rings under Whitechapel, a lineage that runs back to the 1570s. John Taylor & Co of Loughborough calls itself the country’s last remaining bellfoundry. The London Bell Foundry, a not-for-profit set up by campaigners, wants to buy the Whitechapel building and reopen it as a working foundry.

 [Whitechapel Bell Foundry, April 2017 (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20190120093930/http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/news.htm) · [Survey of London: the foundry](https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/survey-of-london/2021/05/14/whitechapel-bell-foundry) · [Taylors: history](https://taylorbells.co.uk/history/) · [Spitalfields Life, 31 May 2026](https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/05/31/john-claridge-at-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry-iii/) · [The London Bell Foundry](https://thelondonbellfoundry.co.uk/)

 
- c.1380 

### The oldest, heaviest and lightest

 Dove’s Guide dates three bells to about 1380, at Addington, Cranford and Leyton, and marks them as estimates. The oldest year Dove gives as certain is 1511, at Downe; the five bells at Great St Bartholomew, Smithfield, are dated only to 1495–1515. The heaviest bell in any London ring is the tenor of St Paul’s Cathedral, 3,125 kg; the lightest with a recorded weight is 73 kg, at Walworth, St Peter.

 [Dove’s Guide: bell dates](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/help/bells) · [Dove’s Guide data](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/downloads)

 

 
 

## Can anyone go and listen, or learn?

 Dove’s Guide links a website for 159 of the 178 towers, and its FAQ suggests looking for the tower’s own website first. The Association of Ringing Teachers advises towers to tell visitors not to touch the ropes unless invited to, under supervision, and not to approach ringers while they are ringing. One ART teacher warns that on a busy practice night a learner may get only five to ten minutes of focused ringing, so ask the band when to come.

 Learning takes several weeks before you ring with the band, according to the Central Council. The Council’s 1988 survey found about 41,000 ringers; in 2022 its president wrote that the number was thought to be under 35,000. The Council is running a census of ringers on 16–22 November 2026.

 [Dove’s Guide: FAQ](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/help/faqs) · [ART: tower visits](https://ringingteachers.org/resources/recruitment-and-retention/lots-ideas/tower-visits) · [ART: learn to ring](https://bellringing.org/learn-to-ring) · [CCCBR: learning to ring](https://cccbr.org.uk/bellringing/learn/) · [CCCBR president’s blog, 2022](https://cccbr.org.uk/2022/05/24/presidents-blog-60/) · [CCCBR: census 2026](https://cccbr.org.uk/census/)

 

 

## How this page works

### Which towers, and the fence

 Dove’s Guide files the 161 rings of Greater London and the 17 of the City of London under two counties; together they cover the 33 boroughs: 178 rings with 1,415 bells in their main numbering (seven further semitone bells are left out). Dove lists 9 as unringable; they are drawn with a dashed outline. Dove’s data were downloaded on 1 October 2026 and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence; the derived data on this page are shared on the same terms. Changes made: rows filtered to London, bells joined to their rings, and pitches Dove does not give derived from a neighbouring bell’s frequency or, where none is given, estimated from weight and key note.

### Weights and dates

 Dove’s data give bell weights in pounds. They are shown in kilograms and in the ringers’ hundredweight-quarter-pound: 41-3-21 is 41 hundredweight, 3 quarters and 21 pounds, 4,697 lb or 2,131 kg. Where Dove flags a weight as approximate (150 bells) the page says “about” and gives hundredweight to the nearest quarter. A “c” before a cast date is Dove’s estimate, and for a century Dove enters the century’s last year (c1399 is the 14th century). 26 bells have no recorded weight and 16 have a date that is an estimate or a range, so superlatives say “with a recorded weight” or give the range. Dates in brackets, such as 1869 (1870) or (1893), are exact dates Dove knows but the bell does not carry.

### Practice nights

 The practice night is Dove’s text, kept up to date by ringers; it can lag. A night is counted when Dove’s text names the weekday, whatever else it says. Where Dove adds a condition (“not always”, “term only”, “1st and 3rd”) the tower still lights and its full text is shown.

### Pitch

 For 1,303 of the 1,415 bells Dove gives a frequency, which it says is that of the nominal, the bell’s main overtone. A tuned bell’s strike note, the pitch the ear gives it, lies about an octave below the nominal. In rings where at least one bell has a frequency, the other bells take theirs from it and the ring’s major scale (49 bells). In 10 rings (63 bells) Dove gives no frequency for any bell, and the pitch is estimated from the bells’ weight and the key note Dove lists. The tower card says which applies.

### Real recordings

 Four towers carry a real recording under an open licence, trimmed, faded and level-matched: St Mary-le-Bow (jlm5040 on Freesound, CC0), St Paul’s Cathedral (Robert.Crosley on Freesound, CC BY 4.0), St Botolph without Aldgate (Colin on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) and, as a chimed tune, St Clement Danes (Kevin Laurence on Wikimedia Commons, CC0). The St Mary-le-Bow recording is Stedman Cinques, a method this page does not ring.

### The sound

 Everywhere else the bells are synthesised. Each bell is built from the partials a tuned bell has, in the ratios Bill Hibbert gives for the hum, prime, tierce, quint and nominal, at the pitch Dove gives or the estimate described above, with a decay set by weight. Real bells differ in colour, which is why the recordings sit beside them. The rhythm follows the ringers’ handstroke gap: one bell’s length of silence after every second row.

### The changes

 Rows come from the Central Council’s place notation for Plain Hunt, Plain Bob, Cambridge, London and Yorkshire Surprise. Each plain course was computed and checked to return to rounds with no repeated row: Plain Bob Minor 60 changes, Major 112, Royal 180, Maximus 264; Cambridge Surprise Major 224.

### Map and clock

 Borough outlines are the Office for National Statistics 2013 Local Authority Districts under the Open Government Licence, via UK-GeoJSON; the Thames is from OpenStreetMap (Open Database Licence). The practice night shown is the weekday in London; after 10 pm it moves to tomorrow. Your position, if you offer it, stays in the browser.

 
 

## Sources

 Each date and quotation above links to the page it was read on.

 
- [Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers (CCCBR), dove.csv and bells.csv, CC BY-SA 4.0](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/downloads) 
- [Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 
- [Dove’s Guide: bell details (what the frequency means)](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/help/bells) 
- [Central Council methods library (place notation)](https://methods.cccbr.org.uk/) 
- [Bill Hibbert: basic principles of bell tuning](https://www.hibberts.co.uk/basic-principles-of-bell-tuning/) 
- [Bill Hibbert: strike pitch](https://www.hibberts.co.uk/strike-pitch/) 
- [Office for National Statistics, Local Authority Districts 2013 (via UK-GeoJSON)](https://github.com/martinjc/UK-GeoJSON) 
- [OpenStreetMap contributors: River Thames](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)

## All 178 rings

- Acton, St Mary (Ealing): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Addington, St Mary (Croydon): 6 bells; Mon 19:00
- Barking, St Margaret (Barking and Dagenham): 8 bells; Tue
- Barkingside, St George (Redbridge): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Barnes, St Mary (Richmond upon Thames): 8 bells; Fri
- Barnet, St John the Baptist (Barnet): 8 bells; Mon
- Battersea, St Mary (Wandsworth): 8 bells; Mon
- Beckenham, St George (Bromley): 10 bells; Thu
- Beddington, St Mary (Sutton): 10 bells; Thu (see tower website)
- Benhilton, All Saints (Sutton): 8 bells; Tue
- Bermondsey, St James (Southwark): 8 bells; Thu (shared with Rotherhithe)
- Bethnal Green, St John (Tower Hamlets): 3 bells; no practice night recorded
- Bethnal Green, St Matthew (Tower Hamlets): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Bexley, St Mary (Bexley): 8 bells; Thu
- Bickley, St George (Bromley): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Biggin Hill, St Mark (Bromley): 6 bells; Tue 20:00
- Bow, St Mary (Tower Hamlets): 8 bells; Wed
- Bromley, St Peter & St Paul (Bromley): 8 bells; Tue
- Bromley Common, St Luke (Bromley): 8 bells; Thu
- Camberwell, St Giles (Southwark): 10 bells; Fri (1st) 19:00
- Carshalton, All Saints (Sutton): 8 bells; Mon 20:00
- Cheam, St Dunstan (Sutton): 6 bells; Thu
- Chelsea, All Saints Old Church (Kensington and Chelsea): 8 bells; Mon 18:30
- Chelsea, St Luke (Kensington and Chelsea): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Chelsfield, St Martin of Tours (Bromley): 8 bells; Mon
- Chislehurst, Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary (Bromley): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Chislehurst, St Nicholas (Bromley): 8 bells; Wed (with exceptions)
- Chiswick, St Nicholas (Hounslow): 8 bells; Mon (exc Bank Hols)
- City of London, St Andrew Holborn (City of London): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- City of London, St Bartholomew Great (City of London): 5 bells; Thu (Check before) 18:30
- City of London, St Botolph without Aldgate (City of London): 8 bells; Fri
- City of London, St Botolph without Bishopsgate (City of London): 8 bells; Wed 12:15
- City of London, St Dunstan-in-the-West (City of London): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- City of London, St Giles without Cripplegate (City of London): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- City of London, St James Garlickhythe (City of London): 8 bells; Thu 18:30
- City of London, St Katharine Cree (City of London): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- City of London, St Lawrence Jewry (City of London): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- City of London, St Mary Woolnoth (City of London): 3 bells; no practice night recorded
- City of London, St Michael (City of London): 12 bells; PN: by arrangement
- City of London, St Olave (City of London): 8 bells; Thu (term only) 19:00
- City of London, St Vedast (City of London): 6 bells; Mon
- St Magnus the Martyr (City of London): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside (City of London): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- St Paul's Cathedral (City of London): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- St Sepulchre-without-Newgate (City of London): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- Clapham, Holy Trinity (Lambeth): 6 bells; Tue
- Clapham, Our Immaculate Lady of Victories (Lambeth): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Clerkenwell, St James (Islington): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Colliers Wood, Christ Church (Merton): 6 bells; Thu
- Coulsdon, St John (Croydon): 5 bells; Tue
- Cranford, St Dunstan (Hillingdon): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Crayford, St Paulinus (Bexley): 8 bells; Tue
- Croydon, Minster Church of St John the Baptist (Croydon): 12 bells; Tue 20:00
- Cudham, St Peter & St Paul (Bromley): 10 bells; Mon (with exceptions) 20:15
- Dagenham, St Peter & St Paul (Barking and Dagenham): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Dalston, St Mark (Hackney): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Deptford, St John (Lewisham): 8 bells; PN: see tower website
- Downe, St Mary Magdalene (Bromley): 6 bells; Mon 20:00
- Ealing, Christ the Saviour (Ealing): 8 bells; Tue
- Ealing, St Mary (Ealing): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- East Bedfont, St Mary Virgin (Hounslow): 6 bells; PN: by arrangement
- Edgware, St Margaret (Barnet): 6 bells; Mon
- Edmonton, All Saints (Enfield): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Eltham, St John the Baptist (Greenwich): 8 bells; Tue
- Enfield, St Andrew (Enfield): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Enfield, St Mary Magdalene (Enfield): 8 bells; Tue
- Erith, Christ Church (Bexley): 8 bells; Mon
- Erith, St John the Baptist (Bexley): 8 bells; Wed (1st) 20:00
- Farnborough, St Giles (Bromley): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Feltham, St Dunstan (Hounslow): 3 bells; unringable
- Finchley, St Mary (Barnet): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Foots Cray, All Saints (Bexley): 5 bells; Wed
- Fulham, All Saints (Hammersmith and Fulham): 10 bells; Tue
- Gospel Oak, St Martin (Camden): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Great Stanmore, St John Evangelist (Harrow): 8 bells; Thu 20:00
- Greenwich, St Alfege (Greenwich): 10 bells; Wed (see tower website) 20:00
- Hackney, St John at Hackney (Hackney): 10 bells; Mon
- Hammersmith, St Paul (Hammersmith and Fulham): 8 bells; unringable
- Hampstead, Christ Church (Camden): 8 bells; Sun (1st, 3rd) 17:00
- Hampton, St Mary Virgin (Richmond upon Thames): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Hanwell, St Mary (Ealing): 8 bells; Thu 20:00
- Harefield, St Mary Virgin (Hillingdon): 6 bells; Wed 18:30
- Harlington, St Peter & St Paul (Hillingdon): 8 bells; Thu (not always: check) 20:00
- Harmondsworth, St Mary (Hillingdon): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Harrow Weald, All Saints (Harrow): 8 bells; Sun (3rd: Also 4th Weds 14:30, check website) 16:00
- Harrow on the Hill, St Mary (Harrow): 10 bells; Mon 20:00
- Havering atte Bower, St John (Havering): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Hayes, St Mary (Hillingdon): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Hayes, St Mary Virgin (Bromley): 6 bells; Tue
- Hendon, St Mary (Barnet): 8 bells; Wed
- Heston, St Leonard (Hounslow): 8 bells; Sun 17:30
- Highgate, St Anne (Camden): 8 bells; Thu
- Hillingdon, St John the Baptist (Hillingdon): 10 bells; Mon 20:00
- Holborn, St Giles in the Fields (Camden): 8 bells; Tue 18:00 & Thu (exc 4th) 12:30
- Holloway, St Mary Magdalene (Islington): 8 bells; Wed
- Homerton, St Barnabas (Hackney): 3 bells; no practice night recorded
- Hornchurch, St Andrew (Havering): 10 bells; Tue 19:00
- Hounslow, St Paul (Hounslow): 8 bells; unringable
- Ilford, St Mary (Redbridge): 8 bells; Mon
- Isle of Dogs, Christ Church (Tower Hamlets): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Isleworth, All Saints (Hounslow): 10 bells; Tue (not always: check) 20:00
- Islington, St James Apostle (Islington): 6 bells; Tue
- Islington, St Mary Virgin (Islington): 8 bells; Thu
- Kenley, All Saints (Croydon): 3 bells; no practice night recorded
- Kensington, St Mary Abbots (Kensington and Chelsea): 10 bells; Thu
- Kilburn, St Augustine (Westminster): 8 bells; Mon
- Kilburn, St Mary (Camden): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Kingsbury, St Andrew (Brent): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Kingston upon Thames, All Saints (Kingston upon Thames): 12 bells; Wed
- Knightsbridge, St Paul (Westminster): 3 bells; unringable
- Lewisham, St Mary (Lewisham): 8 bells; Mon 20:00
- Leyton, St Mary Virgin (Waltham Forest): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Leytonstone, St John the Baptist (Waltham Forest): 8 bells; Mon
- Limehouse, St Anne (Tower Hamlets): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Merton, St John the Divine (Merton): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Merton, St Mary (Merton): 6 bells; Mon
- Mitcham, St Peter & St Paul (Merton): 8 bells; Mon
- Monken Hadley, St Mary Virgin (Barnet): 8 bells; Tue
- Morden, St Lawrence (Merton): 3 bells; unringable
- Mortlake, St Mary (Richmond upon Thames): 8 bells; Wed 20:00
- North Ockendon, St Mary Magdalene (Havering): 6 bells; Mon
- Norwood Green, St Mary Virgin (Ealing): 6 bells; Tue (by arrangement)
- Penge, St John Evangelist (Bromley): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Pimlico, St Barnabas (Westminster): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Pimlico, St Gabriel (Westminster): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Pimlico, St Saviour (Westminster): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Pinner, St John the Baptist (Harrow): 8 bells; Tue (check with contact) 20:00
- Poplar, All Saints (Tower Hamlets): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Putney, St Mary (Wandsworth): 8 bells; Mon
- Rainham, St Helen & St Giles (Havering): 3 bells; unringable
- Richmond, St Mary Magdalene (Richmond upon Thames): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Roehampton, Holy Trinity (Wandsworth): 8 bells; Sun 16:30
- Romford, St Edward Confessor (Havering): 8 bells; Wed
- Rotherhithe, St Mary (Southwark): 8 bells; Thu (shared with Bermondsey, please check)
- Ruislip, St Martin (Hillingdon): 8 bells; Wed
- Shadwell, St Paul (Tower Hamlets): 8 bells; unringable
- Shoreditch, St Leonard (Hackney): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- Sidcup, St John Evangelist (Bexley): 6 bells; Wed (1st, 3rd, 5th)
- South Croydon, St Peter (Croydon): 12 bells; Mon (see tower website)
- South Hackney, St John of Jerusalem (Hackney): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- South Kensington, Queen's Tower (Westminster): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Southgate, Christ Church (Enfield): 10 bells; Wed
- Southwark Cathedral (Southwark): 12 bells; Wed (not always: check) 18:30
- Southwark, St George Martyr (Southwark): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Spitalfields, Christ Church (Tower Hamlets): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- St Mary Cray, St Mary (Bromley): 6 bells; Thu
- St Paul's Cray, His Royal Majesty House (Bromley): 3 bells; unringable
- Stamford Hill, St Ann (Haringey): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Stepney, St Dunstan & All Saints (Tower Hamlets): 10 bells; Thu
- Stepney, St George in the East (Tower Hamlets): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Stoke Newington, St Mary Old Church (Hackney): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Streatham, St Leonard (Lambeth): 8 bells; Tue
- Tooting Graveney, All Saints (Wandsworth): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Tottenham, All Hallows (Haringey): 8 bells; Tue 19:00
- Twickenham, All Hallows (Richmond upon Thames): 10 bells; Tue
- Twickenham, St Mary Virgin (Richmond upon Thames): 8 bells; Wed 20:00
- Uxbridge, St Andrew (Hillingdon): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Uxbridge, St Margaret (Hillingdon): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Walthamstow, St Mary (Waltham Forest): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Walthamstow, St Saviour (Waltham Forest): 8 bells; Thu
- Walworth, St Peter (Southwark): 8 bells; Sun (1st, 2nd, 5th) 12:00
- Wandsworth, All Saints (Wandsworth): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Wandsworth, Holy Trinity (Wandsworth): 8 bells; Fri (not always: check)
- Wanstead, Christ Church (Redbridge): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Waterloo, St John Evangelist (Lambeth): 8 bells; Sun (not always: check) 12:00
- West Drayton, St Martin (Hillingdon): 5 bells; unringable
- West Ham, All Saints (Newham): 10 bells; Fri
- West Wickham, St John the Baptist (Bromley): 6 bells; Wed
- St Clement Danes (Westminster): 10 bells; Thu (term only) 15:30
- St Martin-in-the-Fields (Westminster): 12 bells; no practice night recorded
- Westminster Abbey (Westminster): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Westminster, St Margaret (Westminster): 10 bells; no practice night recorded
- Westminster, St Stephen (Westminster): 8 bells; no practice night recorded
- Willesden, St Mary (Brent): 8 bells; Tue
- Wimbledon, St Mary (Merton): 8 bells; Wed
- Wood Green, St Michael (Haringey): 6 bells; no practice night recorded
- Woodford, St Mary Virgin (Redbridge): 8 bells; Mon
- Woolwich, St Mary Magdalene (Greenwich): 8 bells; no practice night recorded

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