Colwick
St John the Baptist

Bells

The church has a single bell, hung dead on the south wall for chiming. Details are:

  Inscription Size Weight
1 in C

S.JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH,COLWICK, NOTTINGHAM 1950

 16" 0.3.17

The bell was cast from the metal of an old bell. That was dated 1775, it measured 17⅞" and carried the inscription:

REV. PHILLIP GURDEN, ASSINGTON HALL

The origins of that bell are unknown, though Assington Hall is known to have been Suffolk. (It burnt down in 1957).