King's Norton Church, Leicestershire, Struck by Lightning, 1850. 'The tower, containing a peal of eight bells, with chimes, was surmounted by a spire, which formed the chief beauty of the beautiful feature is now entirely destroyed. On Monday, May 13, during a sudden storm of thunder and lightning, which seemed to break immediately over the village, a flash struck the spire, and (without any exaggeration) shivered it in a moment into a thousand stone which formed the finial of the spire fell upon and crushed the is, moreover, the second calamity of th
King's Norton Church, Leicestershire, Struck by Lightning, 1850. 'The tower, containing a peal of eight bells, with chimes, was surmounted by a spire, which formed the chief beauty of the beautiful feature is now entirely destroyed. On Monday, May 13, during a sudden storm of thunder and lightning, which seemed to break immediately over the village, a flash struck the spire, and (without any exaggeration) shivered it in a moment into a thousand stone which formed the finial of the spire fell upon and crushed the is, moreover, the second calamity of the kind which has befallen [the parish] within the last seven years. This same spire was struck a first time in February, the few inhabitants had only paid off the debt occasioned by the first stroke a few weeks before the time when the second fell'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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