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The Bell Tower
St. John’s Church
576 Concord Road
“St. John’s Episcopal Church is just a short distance up the road from Tucker Farm on the other side of the hill on top of which stands the brick house built by our ancestor, John Hannum I, about 1686” (Hannum, p. 59).
The Ladies' Missionary Guild gifted the St. John’s Bell Tower to the church in 1891. It is believed the bell originated from Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in West Chester. The Tower was replaced in the 1960s and was dedicated to Dr. Robert Freeman Deese, a longtime St. John’s vestryman and senior chemist for the DuPont Company.​
Today, the Bell Tower quietly sits along the back of the church near the top parking lot.
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