Bell Tower - Holy Trinity - Teigh, Rutland - Bell Towers on Waymarking.com

The tower of Holy Trinity church, Tiegh, is all that remains of the medieval church, following a disastrous fire in the 18th-century. It has a ring of 3 bells.

"The church of the HOLY TRINITY was rebuilt in 1782 in the Gothic style of the day by the fourth Earl of Harborough (rector 1743–73), the west tower, which is of 14th-century date, being alone retained. The entrance is at the west end through the tower, the bottom stage of which forms a porch.

The tower is of four stages with pairs of angle buttresses, but the lower portion only is ancient; it is of ironstone rubble with moulded plinth. The upper part was rebuilt in 1792 (fn. 79) in two stages, the bell-chamber windows being re-used and new windows introduced below. (fn. 80) The old windows are of two trefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the head, and the tower terminates in an 18th-century battlemented parapet with angle pinnacles surmounted by vanes. Immediately below the parapet is a band of ornament similar to that of the nave. The buttresses stop at the third stage. There is a vice at the south-west angle. The pointed west doorway belongs to the 18th-century alterations, when the lower stage was lined internally with ashlar to form a circular vestibule, with domed plaster ceiling. The upper part of the 14th-century arch to the nave, of three chamfered orders, is visible in the ringing chamber.

There are three bells, the first and second by Thomas Eayre of Kettering, 1746, and the tenor, a medieval bell inscribed 'In noie ihs Maria.' The marks on the tenor are the shield of a Nottingham founder and two Royal heads. The bells are hung in the third stage above which there is no floor. The date 1794 is in the bell-frame. There is a tradition that two bells were removed from this church to that of Stapleford."

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"The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Tie’ and the first reference to a church at Tie was around 1100. Teigh has had a notorious Rector. In 1321 Teigh had a Richard de Folville as Rector (visit link) , a ruffian priest who often joined his lawless and at that time out-lawed relations the Folvilles of Ashby Folville in Leicestershire and Newbold Folville in Hungtingdon, in exploits of robbery and even murder. He ended his career in 1341, defending himself in Teigh church against the under-sheriff and his men, who overpowered him, dragged him out and cut off his head in the village street.
In 1478 the Sherards first appear as rectors and patrons of the church. In 1604 a Zacharias Jenkinson became rector. A Puritan who was frequently in trouble for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus and not standing when reading from the gospels."

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Number of bells in tower?: 3 Address of Tower: Not listed Still Operational: Not Listed Relevant website?: Not listed Rate tower: Not listed Tours or visits allowed in tower?: Not listed

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