- Type of Memorial
- Bells or bell tower
- WMR Reference Number
- 14738
- Description
- Tall bell tower memorial constructed of local brick and Portland stone. Contains 47 bells cast by Taylor's Bell Foundry of Loughborough with individual inscriptions on each bell. Played using clavier (with keyboard). Museum within ground floor level. Copper covered balcony at top. Twelve wall mounted metal plaques with inscriptions in relief, on rusticated stone walls at bottom of tower. Additional plaque for WW1 soldiers not originally recorded. Domed tower to top with weather-vane.
- Inscription
- Base wall of tower : THIS TOWER WAS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LOUGHBOROUGH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR FREEDOM IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918.
Plaque 1 : THIS MEMORIAL WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE MAYOR, / ALDERMAN AND BURGESSES OF THE BOROUGH OF / LOUGHBOROUGH, BY THOSE WHO SUBSCRIBED FOR / ITS COST, ON SUNDAY, JULY 22ND. 1923. <><><><> / AT ITS TRANSFER THE FOLLOWING CHARGE WAS / GIVEN:- <><><><> / " WE CHARGE YOU TO HAND ON THE DUTY AND / PRIVILEGE OF MAINTAINING AND PRESERVING / THIS GREAT MEMORIAL, SO THAT GENERATIONS / YET UNBORN MAY BE REMINDED OF THE SACRIFICE / WHICH THESE MEN MADE, AND OF THE GREAT / PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH THEY DIED." <><><><> / THIS CHARGE WAS ACCEPTED BY THE MAYOR IN / THE FOLLOWING WORDS:- <><><><> / " I ACCEPT ON BEHALF OF THE ALDERMEN AND / BURGESSES OF THIS BOROUGH THE GIFT OF THIS / MEMORIAL TOWER AND CARILLON. ITS CARE SHALL / EVER BE THEIR SOLEMN TRUST AND PRIVILEGE. "
Plaque 2 : THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED ON SUNDAY, / JULY 22ND, 1923, <><><><> / BY FIELD MARSHAL SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON, / BART., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., DSO. <><><><> / AND WAS THEN DEDICATED BY THE RT. REV. / FRANK THEODORE WOODS, D.D., BISHOP OF / PETERBOROUGH, <><><><> / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO WERE FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, / WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HEREON. <> / ON THAT DAY THE CARILLON OF 47 BELLS WAS / FIRST PLAYED BY <><><><> / THE CHEVALIER JEF. DENYN OF MALINES, / BELGIUM. <><><><>
Plaques 3, 4, 5 & 6 : (WW1 NAMES).
Plaque 7 : IN HONOURED MEMORY ALSO OF / THE MEN OF LOUGHBOROUGH / WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED / ON THESE TABLETS <><> / AND WHO, FOLLOWING THEIR / ELDER BROTHERS COMMEMORATED / BY THIS TOWER, GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR / 1939-1945 / PRO PATRIA / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
Plaques 8 & 9 : (WW2 NAMES)
Plaques 10, 11 & 12 : (Post 1945 NAMES)
Plaque 13: Commemorated here are those 114 Loughborough/ men who gave their lives in WWI but whose names/ were not originally recorded on the Carillon Tower/ (Names)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
Largest bell: IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY/ OF HIS THREE NEPHEWS/ KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE/ (Names) / SONS OF JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (1853-1919)/ GRANDSONS OF JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (1827-1905)/ EDMUND DENISON TAYLOR/ THE FOUNDER OF THESE BELLS/ GIVES THIS THE LARGEST/ 1923