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St.NICHOLAS CHURCH Part 4
Mayor’s Pew
This is in the Nave and is unmistakable with its red cord and velvet cushions and the rest for the Borough mace.
Beza Bible 1607
This can be seen in an oak case to the right of the altar in the Lady Chapel. It was presented by Mr and Mrs T Jennings in 1936. It contains the Geneva version of the Old Testament by Theodore Beza, ‘Englished by L Tomson’. It includes the Apocrypha.
German Bomb
In a glass case at the rear of the church is the head of an aerial torpedo, which narrowly missed the church during a Zeppelin attack in 1917.
Bells
There was originally a peal of six bells cast in 1752 by Thomas Gardiner of Sudbury but they were taken out of the old church and recast in 1821 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry when two trebles were added.
Tower Cock
The external face is inscribed ‘Newell of London 1821’ but the mechanism, dated 1799, made by John Thwaites of London, probably came from the old church.
The church is open during the Summer months
St NICHOLAS CHURCH: End