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DETAILS OF THE BELLS |
Bell
Weight Diameter Cast Founder 1
4-2-20
28" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
2
5-1-13
29" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
3
6-0-23
31⅛" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
4
7-3-21
34" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
5
9-0-10
36½"
1932
Gillett & Johnston
6
10-3-4
38½" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
7
14-2-0
42⅞" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
8
19-1-17
477/16" 1935
John Taylor & Co.
Sanctus
1915
John Warner & Sons
For many years, the tenor was given as 19-3-17. This was because Paul Taylor, in 1961, deliberately gave false information (as was common at the time for commercial reasons). The actual weights recorded at Loughborough are as above.
A notice in the tower gives the 7th as 11-2-0.
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JOHN TAYLOR &
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| FANNY | |||
| 2. |
JOHN TAYLOR & CO.
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| PETER | |||
| 3. |
JOHN TAYLOR &
CO. |
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| FREDERICK BOWATER | |||
| 4. |
JOHN TAYLOR &
CO. |
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| ROSEMARY | |||
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| 6. |
JOHN TAYLOR &
CO. |
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| WILLIAM | |||
| 7. |
JOHN TAYLOR &
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| SAMUEL | |||
| 8. |
JOHN TAYLOR &
CO. |
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| FRANCES, SOLI DEO GLORIA. | |||
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ECCE ·
REX · TVVS
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IN · PACE JOANNES · WARNER · FILIIQUE FECERVNT · MCMXV |
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The letters on the Warner bell are incised. Those underlined were not actually observed but surmised.

HISTORY |
1868
Church built.
1915
Sanctus bell recast by John Warner & Sons. It hangs in an open gable at the end of the south aisle.
1930
Tower built, detached from the church.
1932
Bell cast by Gillett & Johnston, destined to be the 6th of an octave before the order was stopped.
1935
Ring of 8 cast around the Gillett bell (which forms the 5th) by John Taylor.