Many English villages have an inn named the Bell, four, five, six – in fact bells in all numbers up to twelve are numerous. The church did indeed have five bells when this inn was built but a sixth was added later.

Englishmen have always had a fondness for their bells and there are now some 40,000 men and women throughout the country who are enthusiastic ringers. This explains why the Eight Bells, the usual number in a peal, is so popular. The name is also associated with one of the favourite hobbies practised in English villages in the past, that of handbell ringing, and this is also identified on many signs.

The bells at Morton date back to the early 18th and late 19th centuries, five of them being installed between 1755 and 1816 and were restored in 1889, including work on the bearings which were in a dilapidated condition. The work was carried out by Messrs Taylor and Sons of Loughborough, Leicestershire, and Messrs Wadsley and Sons of Morton, who made the new bell beams measuring 16 inches by 10 inches.

The five old bells were then re-hung and a place left for the sixth which was added in 1892. A special service was held on Sunday 3rd March 1889 to inaugurate the newly-restored bells when ringers from several other churches in the county came to try them out.

The bells were restored again in the autumn of 1932 by Alfred Bowell of Ipswich who dismantled them and gave them a thorough overhaul at a cost of £120. Apart from routine maintenance and oiling, that was the last time they were given attention until 2006 when a total re-fit was carried out on five of them, each weighing almost a ton, at a cost of £22,000, money that was raised from the church Bell Fund, grants from Morton Townlands Charity, the National Guild of Bellringers and the South Lincolnshire Guild of Bellringers, donations, various parish activities and any shortfall being made up by the Parochial Church Council. Ringers and a number of volunteers also turned up to help with the work of re-hanging the bells and so the costs were significantly reduced.

This time, the work reverted to John Taylor Bellfounders (now Taylors, Eayre and Smith Ltd), the world's leading manufacturers, who dismantled the bells in February for a comprehensive overhaul and transported them by lorry to their workshops at Loughborough. They had become out of tune and a complete refit of all the working parts was required, including headstocks, wheels, pulleys, sliders and clappers, although the original frames remained. On June 2, a band of ringers from the church accompanied by friends and families, visited the foundry at Loughborough for a guided tour and to see work on their own bells in progress,

They arrived back later that month to be re-hung in the tower and children from the village school were allowed into the church to watch the project proceed. To coincide with the re-fit, the ringing chamber in the tower has been redecorated, the ironwork of the bell frame painted and the wooden beams treated with preservative. "The team has spent many hours on the task", said tower captain Mark Mumby.

Visitors to the village street fair on July 8th were invited to inspect the newly installed bells and a special service of blessing was arranged for later in the year.

The six bells at Morton are inscribed as follows:

1. J Taylor and Co, founders, Loughborough, 1892

2. Vox mea est dulcis mea scintillans vultus, Thomas Eayre de Kettering fecit, 1755 (My voice is sweet, my appearance sparkling. T E of Kettering made.)

3. Rev Samuel Hopkinson, Vicar. John Lambert, Churchwarden, 1816.

4. Statutum est semel omnibus mori. (It is appointed unto all men once to die.) Edward Franks, C W John Briant, Hertford, fecit 1798.

5. Nos summus constructi ad laudem Domini. Gloria Patri Filio et Spiritu Sancto, 1755. (We are made for the praise of the Lord, Glory to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.)

6. Cum sono si no vis venire nunquam ad preces cupies 1755. Thomas Eayre fecit. John Sympson, Churchwarden. (When I sound if you do not wish to come you may never want to pray.)

In the ringing chamber there are several shields commemorating the ringing of big peals, together with the names of those who took part.