Babworth All Saints

Bells

Three bells were hung in 1691 by the York foundry of Samuel I Smith, they are still in the tower though the treble was recast in 1959; at the same time three new bells were added, cast by Taylors of Loughborough.

The bellframe is a low-sided, cast-iron structure by Taylors of Loughborough, 1959.

  Inscription Size Weight
1

JOHN TAYLOR & CO FOUNDERS LOUGHBOROUGH
CHRISTIAN
THY CALL RING CLEAR TO SERVE OUR
GOD
WHENCE CAME WITH GLADSOME GRACE AND VALUE
EDITH PICKWELL ELLIS
BELOVED WIFE OF
PERCY
HE HATH PUT A NEW
SONG IN MY MOUTH
1959

24.00" 2-3-27
2

JOHN TAYLOR & CO FOUNDERS LOUGHBOROUGH
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
RICHARD CLYFTON
1586-1605
'A GRAVE AND REVEREND PREACHER' (WILLIAM BRADFORD)

25.38" 3-1-6
3

JOHN TAYLOR & CO FOUNDERS LOUGHBOROUGH
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
THIS BELL WAS GIVEN Y THE
BARRON BELL TRUST
K.C.WALROND}   
                 E.R.PENNELL}    TRUSTEES
1959

27.63" 4-0-6
4

VENITE EXVLTEMVS DOMINO 1691
RECAST 1959

28.50" 4-1-4
5

GLORIA IN ALTISSIMIS DEO 1691

32.25" 6-0-23

6

IN INCVNDITATE SONI SONABO TIBI DOMINI 1691

35.25" 7-1-4

In 1740 it was recorded that there were three bells (presumably the three Samuel I Smith bells of 1691).