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                                ~The
                         Arts of the Church~

                            EDITED BY THE

                       REV. PERCY DEARMER, M.A.




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    |                   ~The Arts of the Church~                   |
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    |                        Edited by the                         |
    |                   REV. PERCY DEARMER, M.A.                   |
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    | 16mo. Profusely Illustrated. Cloth, 1/6 net.                 |
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    | 1. $THE ORNAMENTS OF THE MINISTERS.$ By the Rev. PERCY       |
    |     DEARMER, M.A.                                            |
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    | 2. $CHURCH BELLS.$ By H. B. WALTERS, M.A., F.S.A.            |
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    | 3. $THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.$      |
    |     By A. G. HILL, M.A., F.S.A.                              |
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[Illustration:                                           _Frontispiece._

KING DAVID PLAYING ON HAND-BELLS.

From a manuscript Psalter in the British Museum. This subject was often
selected for the heading to the forty-sixth Psalm, as here. (See page
6).]




                        The Arts of the Church

                             CHURCH BELLS

                                  BY
                      H. B. WALTERS, M.A., F.S.A.
                      Author of _Greek Art_, &c.

                   _WITH THIRTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS_

                       A. R. MOWBRAY & CO. LTD.
          LONDON: 34 Great Castle Street, Oxford Circus, W.
                        OXFORD: 9 High Street


First printed, 1908




EDITOR'S NOTE


The little volumes in the ARTS OF THE CHURCH series are intended to
provide information in an interesting as well as an accurate form
about the various arts which have clustered round the public worship
of GOD in the Church of CHRIST. Though few have the opportunity of
knowing much about them, there are many who would like to possess the
main outlines about those arts whose productions are so familiar to
the Christian, and so dear. The authors will write for the average
intelligent man who has not had the time to study all these matters
for himself; and they will therefore avoid technicalities, while
endeavouring at the same time to present the facts with a fidelity
which will not, it is hoped, be unacceptable to the specialist.




AUTHOR'S NOTE


Acknowledgements must be expressed to the following persons who
have assisted in supplying photographs or other materials for the
illustrations to this book: to the Rev. W. H. Frere, Mr. A. Riley, and
the Committee of the Alcuin Club for permission to reproduce in plate 4
a page of a MS. Pontifical; to Dr. Amherst D. Tyssen and the Rev. Dr.
Jessopp for blocks; to W. Watson, Esq., of York, and Miss Wilson of
Idbury for photographs; to Messrs. Wills and Hepworth of Loughborough,
Messrs. Mears and Stainbank, and Messrs. Taylor and Co. of Loughborough
for blocks, negatives and photographs.




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                                 PAGE

  I.   EARLY HISTORY AND METHODS OF CASTING                  1

  II.  THE ENGLISH BELL-FOUNDERS                            21

  III. BIG BELLS; CARILLONS AND CHIMES; CAMPANILES          43

  IV.  CHANGE-RINGING                                       67

  V.   USES AND CUSTOMS OF BELLS                            81

  VI.  THE DECORATION OF BELLS AND THEIR INSCRIPTIONS      105

  VII. THE CARE OF BELLS                                   139

       INDEX                                               157




ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                          PAGE

  KING DAVID PLAYING ON HAND-BELLS              _Frontispiece_

  SAXON TOWER, EARL'S BARTON                                 3

  A PERFORM