 Gunthorpe
St John the Baptist
Bells
There is a single bell in a western turret. It has no inscriptions, measures
13⅛" in diameter and has weight 2qtr 3lb. It is hung for swing
chiming from a wooden headstock with lever and plain bearings. The bell retains
its canons. It is liekly that the bell dates from 1850
when the church was originally built, and may be a brass-founder’s product.
Thomas Hedderly’s notebook contains a note about Gunthorpe, which
must refer to a bell in the old church:
Gunthorp
111lbs weight Own metle 5cwt 17
Regardless of his harp
Apollo Here is found
Charmed with the Solemn
Bells Melodious Sound 1781
Whether this verse was actually inscribed on the bell is open to conjecture.
The bell from the old church was said to have been put in the old Exchange
Building in Nottingham (which was demolished in 1926).
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