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The Church Bells of Kent (Classic Reprint): Their Inscriptions, Founders, Uses, and Traditions: Their Inscriptions, Founders, Uses, and Traditions (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Stahlschmidt, John Charles Lett

 
9780331239300: The Church Bells of Kent (Classic Reprint): Their Inscriptions, Founders, Uses, and Traditions: Their Inscriptions, Founders, Uses, and Traditions (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Explore the bells of Kent and the lives they touched Discover the history, makers, and daily use of church bells across Kent, from parish churches to notable clocks. This book presents a focused, survey-style look at how bells were cast, hung, rung, and recorded.

The volume gathers inscriptions, founders, and the ways bells shaped local worship and memory. It draws on parish accounts, contemporary notes, and collector squeezes to illuminate a regional bell culture, with attention to traditions like curfews and bell ringing for sermons.


  • See who made and repaired bells, and how bells were financed and weighed

  • Learn what inscriptions reveal about dates, places, and bell founders

  • Understand how bells served church life, from daily ringings to special occasions

  • Get a window into the broader history of campanology in Kent



Ideal for readers of local history, regional archaeology, and bell-ringing enthusiasts seeking a grounded, documentary portrait of Kent’s bells.

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Excerpt from The Church Bells of Kent: Their Inscriptions, Founders, Uses, and Traditions

For special assistance I am greatly indebted, first of all, to Mr. E. J. Wells, the secretary of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, a native of the county, and a devoted campanist and practical ringer. He has rendered me most effectual service in verifying and cast-taking. My good friend Mr. J. Meadows Cowper, of Canterbury, has been equally kind steeple-chasing is not his forte - but I owe many thanks to him for very much valuable information from the records of his city, parochial and civic.

Another good friend, Dr. Francis Grayling, of Sittingbourne, has verified for me the belfries in his neighbourhood, and thereby spared me much labour; for this and for other useful information I here record my best thanks.

I am under much obligation to Mr. Herbert T. Sankey and his partner, the worthy Town Clerk of Canterbury, for kindly undertaking several searches in the Registry of Wills, and for other help.

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