Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Bells or bell tower
- District
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Town
- Butterton
- County
- Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Thankful Village, First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- John Taylor and Co (Founder / Foundry)
- Ceremony
- Presented
Date: 3 August 2017
Attended by: John Taylor & Co-date of casting - Opened
Date: 11 November 2018
Attended by: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Presented
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 79792
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Current location
St Bartholomew's Church
Butterton
Staffordshire Moorlands
Staffordshire
ST13 7TJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 07593 56580
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- New Church Treble Bell
- Inscription
- THANKFUL BELL/ 1918-2018/ DONATED BY/ KELTEK TRUST 1997-2017/ MARY KELLY, DAVID KELLY, DAVID PRESTON/ TRUSTEES
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Thankful Village
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Thankful Village
- Components
- Bells
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- Bells
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Thankful Bell, Butterton
- WMO ID: 256668
- Condition: Good [last updated on 01-07-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
Details: Gift of the Keltek Trust - Reference
- www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/burton-news/staffordshire-village-ww1-soldiers-came-2201640
- www.keltektrust.org.uk/butterton.html
- Photographs of the 15 WW1 and 13 WW2 Men who served & returned in this doubly thankful village-www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6357789/Remembrance-Sunday-Bell-ring-village-service-lost-no-men-World-War.html
- taylorbells.co.uk/project/butterton-staffordshire/
- Church Times 9 November 2018 page 3b-c
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