In 1624 the following entry appears in the Parish Register:

There is a gap in the records then until 1658 when the churchwardens accounts are first regularly entered in the Registers. The entries concerning the bells become very frequent, being chiefly for new ropes, repairs to the bells and frames, 'oyle' and 'liquour' to grease the bells, 'skins' to hang the clappers, a 'planke for wheile spokes and a pese to mend ye frams', and in 1676 'extended at Letting the great bell downe, on the workemen and some others of the p'sh 1 s 6d'. In 1672-3 the churchwardens received £1 3s 3d for '31 pounds of bell mettle' cut out of the great bell, and in the same year 6s 6d was paid to one Lanckshaw, an itinerant bell founder, 'that undertooke to cast the little bell and faild.'

The churchwardens then agreed with William Scott, bellfounder of Wigan, to cast the little bell; he completed the job successfully and rehung it at a cost of £10 4s 6d for casting and £5 9s 6d for expenses. In addition he supplied new wheels and ropes. All the various items are entered in the accounts: 'For a horse to Wiggan to see the bell cast 4s'; 'Spent in tarrying two days and two nights my owne charges 6s 8d'; 12s 9d was spent 'in meast & drinke to a Company of Assistants to the Bellfounder'; and 'P'd charges for the bellfounder & his brother at the hanging of the bell & for their horses two days 9s 6d'. 261bs of 'mettle' was added to the bell in recasting.

This treble appears to have been an unlucky bell. In 1687 Henry Robinson, schoolmaster, writes:
"You must understand that the first bell in these Churchwardens beginning of their time, as people were ringing one Sabbath day evening, came downe, brought both Lofts mostly downe with it, espetially broke all the maine timbers of the Lower Loft & stroke halfe over head through the flaggs into the ground & hurt none nor harmed it selfe & was got up againe, new wheele new Lofts & the Leads on the top of the steeple (w'ch were pillaged in the time of the Civill war & by remisness of the Clark and for want of a Lock on the Steeple door) new laid & the two ends done with stones and the new roof slated by w'ch meanes these wardens who thought to have done as little as they could, proued to have their hands full all the year as by their s'd acct's appear. H.R."

Robinson does not appear to have a high opinion of the clerk or the wardens!

The usual list of repairs to the church, bells, frames, and roof, new locks for the steeple door, and new bell ropes goes on until 1723-24, when the three old bells were taken down and a new ring of five was installed by Luke Ashton of Wigan, who took the old bells as part payment. The old bells were taken to Bristol and probably sold to one of the bellfounders there. Possibly they may still be hanging in some church in that part of the country. It would be very interesting to find out what became of them.

In 1853 the parishoners paid for a new treble to make a ring of six, but in 1857 the church was totally destroyed by a fire which burned through the tower floors and the bell frame, and the bells crashed to the ground. Taylors of Loughborough cast a new ring of six from the fragments, and it is these bells that are rung today. Taylors carried out a restoration scheme in 1948 and rehung the bells on ball bearings.