St Mary Magdalene's Church, Lillington
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St Mary Magdalene's Church, Lillington is the Anglican parish church of Lillington
, Warwickshire
, a district of Royal Leamington Spa having a population of around 11,000. St Mary Magdalene's Church is situated at the junction of Vicarage Road and Church Lane.
by Mears and Stainbank. The present sixth bell is attributed to Thomas Harrys of London, cast around 1480, which makes it contemporary with the tower. The seventh bell was cast in 1625 by Watts of Leicester, and the tenor in 1675 by Henry Bagley of Chacombe. The bells were re-hung by Nicholson Engineering of Bridport in 2007.
and installed in 1897. It seems that the tower had no clock before then. The clock was renovated, the four dials repainted and gilded, and the mechanism repositioned within the ringing chamber, by the Cumbria Clock Company in 2007.
Lillington, Warwickshire
Lillington is an area of the town of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, England. Lillington was formerly a village which existed before the time of the Domesday Book , until it was subsumed into Leamington Spa, the parish being incorporated into that borough in 1890.-Geography:Lillington itself has...
, Warwickshire
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
, a district of Royal Leamington Spa having a population of around 11,000. St Mary Magdalene's Church is situated at the junction of Vicarage Road and Church Lane.
History
The earliest surviving part of the present building is the south wall of the chancel dating from around 1250. The west tower is late perpendicular of around 1480. The remainder of the church is Victorian built or rebuilt between 1847 and 1884. A choir vestry was added in 1914. A detached octagonal meeting room was built in the churchyard in 1987.Bells
The church has a ring of eight bells, created in 1927 from the former ring of three by the addition of five new bells cast at WhitechapelWhitechapel Bell Foundry
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is a bell foundry in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. The foundry is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain...
by Mears and Stainbank. The present sixth bell is attributed to Thomas Harrys of London, cast around 1480, which makes it contemporary with the tower. The seventh bell was cast in 1625 by Watts of Leicester, and the tenor in 1675 by Henry Bagley of Chacombe. The bells were re-hung by Nicholson Engineering of Bridport in 2007.
Clock
Lillington church clock was made by Potts of LeedsPotts of Leeds
Potts of Leeds was a major British manufacturer of public clocks, based in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.- Introduction :William Potts was born in December 1809 and was apprenticed to Samuel Thompson, a Darlington clockmaker. In 1833, at the age of 24, William moved to Pudsey near Leeds, to set up his own...
and installed in 1897. It seems that the tower had no clock before then. The clock was renovated, the four dials repainted and gilded, and the mechanism repositioned within the ringing chamber, by the Cumbria Clock Company in 2007.