Granby
All Saints

Bells

Rehung on a steel frame, replacing a wooden frame, in 1953, there were originally 5 bells with a 6th added in memory of two churchwardens. At the Edward VI inventory in 1552 there were four bells and two hand bells.

There are 6 bells inscribed:

  Inscription Size Weight
1

JOHN TAYLOR & CO FOUNDERS OF LOUGHBOROUGH,
IN MEMORY OF
DONALD HALL
AND SAMUEL SMITH


TO THE GLORY OF GOD
THIS BELL WAS GIVEN BY
THE BARRON BELL FUND
EMMA BARRON, FOUNDER

K.W.ELDRED }  
K.C.WALROND } TRUSTEES
E.R.PENNELL }  
27.5" 4.0.9
2

GOD SAVE HIS CHURCH 1635 RECAST 1959

 29.75" 4.3.12
3

Ecce Ancilla D M

 30.5" 5.2.13
4

Sca Margareta

 36" 8.1.4
5

OF GRANBY’S PRAISE I SOUND ALL WAYS :
DEO GLORIA EXCELCIS 1761
THOMAS HEDDERLY FOUNDER

 38.75" 9.2.18

6

All men that heare my mornful sound repent before you lye in ground 1626

 41.875" 13.1.22

The old treble (bell 2) and the tenor (bell 6) are the work of George I Oldfield of Nottingham. Bells 3 and 4 are from the medieval Nottingham foundry in the hands of the Seliok family; the moulding wires indicate a date of after 1510. The 5th bell was cast by Thomas Hedderly.

The bells appear to have been 5 by 1635 making them one of the earliest 5s in the county.