宋初，改名承天寺，到徽宗宣和中，朝廷禁寺院“天、圣、皇、王等”字讳，重元寺改名为能仁寺。宋代是重元寺的又一个大发展的时代，平江节度使孙承佑铸大铜钟于能仁寺。铜钟高达三楼，钟声响时，除聋破瞶，一击而通，八方上下，震耳欲聋。这时圣姑庙已经盖成，流行遵奉陆缵之女，吴人于此祈子，颇有验也。
永安禅院在承天寺垣中，旧号弥勒院。宋太宗朝以藏经镂板，余杭道原禅师者诣阙借板印造，景徳中又以太宗御制四书及新译经一十四帙并赐之，藏于此院，大中祥符八年，又编修《景徳传灯录》以进敕赐。由于寺里编纂了传灯录，宋代进行朝廷在规定每年度僧的名额里，特批允许承天寺每岁度一僧。

Early Song, Cheng Tiansi changed its name to Sun and Hui Zong, the temple court ban "days, Saint, Queen, King and other" taboo words, re-yuan Temple Nengren changed its name to Temple. Shigemoto Temple in the Song Dynasty is another major development in the era of Pingjiang Jiedushi Sun Chengyou large bronze bell cast in Nengren Temple. Up to the third floor of a bronze bell, when the bell sounds, with the exception of the Deaf Gui-breaking, one-hit, eight points of the compass up and down, deafening. At this time the temple has been built into Shenggu, must abide by the popular daughter of Lu Jia, Wu Chi-people here, have been testing.
Wing-Yuan Cheng Tiansi in a Buddhist Temple, the old house, Maitreya. Song Taizong Canon hard steel plates to North Korea, Yuhang Road to the original master board Yique by Indian-made, the King Royal King again in the German system of the Four Books and the new Translation Zhi and grant of 14, possession of this house, large and medium-sized Cheung Fu eight years, editing the "German King Chuan-Deng recorded" into the Chici. As the temple compiled Chuan-Deng recorded, the Song Dynasty imperial court to conduct the required annual quota of monks, to allow specially-year-old Cheng Tiansi every time a monk.