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Church Bells

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King David playing on hand-bellsFrontispiece

Saxon Tower, Earl’s Barton3

A performer on hand-bells7

Tower or Turret with Bells11

Blessing two bells newly hung15

Late Norman bell-turret at Wyre19

Inner moulds for casting bells23

Outer moulds for casting bells27

Moulds ready for casting31

Forming the mould35

Running the molten metal39

The Mortar of Friar Towthorpe42

Bell by an early fourteenth-century founder47

Blessing the Donor of the bell51

Stamps used by London Founders54

Bell by Robert Mot of London59

A ring of eight bells63

The 9th bell of Loughborough Church66

Tenor bell of Exeter Cathedral73

“Great John of Beverley”77

The great bell of Tong83

“Great Paul”87

The old “Great Tom” of Westminster91

The Belfry of Bruges94

The Campanile, Chichester Cathedral99

The old Campanile of King’s College, Cambridge102

The “Bell House” at East Bergholt107

Diagram showing method of hanging a bell110

Peal of eight bells, Aberavon Church113

Ringers at S. Paul’s Cathedral119

Ringing the Sacring bell123

Sacring bell hung on rood-screen126

Ancient Sanctus Bell129

Tower of Waltham Abbey Church133

Symbols of the Four Evangelists137

Bell by John Tonne141

Gothic Initial Letters, etc.145

Gol„lic Ini„ial Let„149

Part of a seventeenth-century bell153

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