THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION WAS
OVER THE GALLERY AT THE WEST END,
BEING PART OF THE TOWER: -
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UPON THIS TOWER WAS A FAMOUS
AND LOFTY STEEPLE CONTAINING IN
HEIGHT ABOVE THE TOWER 93 FOOT:
WHICH A VIOLENT STORM OF THUNDER
AND LIGHTNING RENT A GREAT
BREACH THEREIN, JULY YE 25th IN
THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1670.
THE PARISH WILLING TO PRESERVE SUCH
A NOBLE AND COMPLEAT SPYRE,
ENDEAVOURED TO REPAIR THE
SAME BY EMPLOYING ABLE WORKMEN
FOR THAT PURPOSE. BUT SUCH WAS THE
UNCONTROULABLE PROVIDENCE OF
ALMIGHTY GOD, THAT WHEN IT WAS
ALMOST FINISHED AND THE WORKMEN
LABOURING THEREON: ANOTHER TERRIBLE
STORM OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
HAPPENED OCTOBER 15th, THE SAME
YEAR WHICH THREW DOWN THE
STEEPLE AND KILLED THE TWO MEN
LABOURING THEREON, AND BEAT DOWN
THE TOP OF THE TOWER AND GREAT
PART OF THE BODY OF THE CHURCH.
WITH PART OF THE ISLES THEREOF:
THE REPARATIONS WHEREOF COST
THE PARISH AND SOME OTHER WELL
DISPOSED NEIGHBORS THE SUM
OF 420 POUNDS, AND WAS FINISHED
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD GOD
1675, BY JOHN STILEMAN GENT AND
JOHN TUCKER, CHURCHWARDENS.
JOHN BARTLETT AND JOHN ROBINS
WERE KILLED BY THE FALL OF THE
STEEPLE OF THIS CHURCH, ON THE 15th,
AND WERE BURIED IN ONE GRAVE, IN
THE NORTH ISLE BELOW THE PORCH,
ON THE 17th DAY OF OCTOBER 1670.