The Parish of Flitwick

Church of England

Diocese of St Albans

 

 

The Bells & Graffiti

  
   

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Seven bells hang in our belfry, five of which date from the seventeenth century. Treble - 1957.

 

 

  

 

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Inscriptions on the bells tell us quite a bit about their history

  1. GOD SAVE OUR KING 1637. This bell was re-cast in 1867.

  2. Johannes Clarke hanc fecit Campanum 1608. Bells by this founder are very rare.

  3. GOD SAVE OUR KING 16311K. 1K stands for James Keene, bell founder of Woodstock.

  4. MILES GRAYE MADE ME 1653. Miles Graye was a founder from Colchester.

  5. Tenor bell MILES GRAYE MADE ME 1654.

 

The small bell which used to hang in St Andrew’s Mission Church in Windmill Road. It is now used as a Minute bell

 

 

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Ringers meet every Friday evening for practises.

 

 

 

 

Graffiti

It may be of interest to note that there are some unofficial inscriptions on some of the clerestory windows. 

 

Some examples are:

 

Mr Snow set me here and bid me stand a hundred year 1789.

 

F Dillingham. J J Dillingham killed at Dover by an aeroplane 1st August 1916 aged 27.

 

Frank Harry Jack Dick and Jim Dillingham served in the army during this war 1914 to 1918.

 

 

  
   

This page last updated 02/09/2008