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Greetham St Mary's Church bells

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Reference WMO/271504

Address:

St Mary's Church

Church Lane

Greetham

Oakham

LE15 7NF

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Bells
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The bells of St Mary’s Church serve as Greetham’s memorial to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars. After the First World War, villagers raised £600 to fund the installation of a new steel bell frame, the recasting of 4 original bells and the installation of a fifth bell. In 1949 a sixth bell was added. Two brass plaques (manufactured by F Osborne & Co), inside the church, are inscribed with dedication and names. In 1923 an article in a local paper ** on July 7 reads GREETHAM BELLS RING AGAIN AFTER OVER A CENTURY’S SILENCE MEMORIAL PEAL DEDICATED Incredible as it would almost appear, the bells of St Mary’s Church at Greetham, had not, up to Saturday last, been rung as a peal for certainly above a hundred years, probably nearer one hundred and fifty. They had hung in the tower broken and useless, and some pieces had actually been taken away, while the timber framework became more and more rotten with age. Many years ago, the church was restored but there were not sufficient funds to put the bells in order and so they remained, until, by a happy inspiration, the parishioners decided to have them recast and hung as the Memorial to those who went from the village in the Great War and did not return, forfeiting their lives for their country. A Memorial Peal Committee was appointed with the Vicar, the Rev. J Denys Massey, as chairman and Mr Wm.Munns hon. Secretary, and money has been raised by means of subscriptions, with fetes and whist drives and the like, while the cost of one bell, which enabled the peal to be increased from four to five, has been generously defrayed by Mrs Sheldon in memory of her husband and father. The total outlay will be something like £600. The work has been carried out by the well known firm of bell-founders and clockmakers, Messrs. Gillett and Johnson of Croydon who some years ago restored and enlarged the peal at Oakham Parish Church.
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THE BELLS IN THIS TOWER WERE/ RE-CAST AND RE-HUNG TO THE HONOUR/ AND GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918/ [NAMES]. TO THE HONOUR AND GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR/ 1939-1925/ [NAMES]

Walter Brown; Herbert Carrier; Francis Dalby; Robert Hack; Robert Mills; Edward Mathias; Ernest Robinson; Charles Throsby; Harry Weston; C E Varrier; C H Crampton; R D Dalby; J W Munton; N McCarthy; I McCarthy

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