The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . Fig. 21. Chronological Account. I will dismiss next a group of bells connected with the lastthree groups by lettering; but I am unable, at present, to domore than guess at the founders name. They are : ... 2nd BrookNewnhamPenshurstSandhurst 4th 3rd and 4th 4th. and Fior. they22. all bear the foundry-stamp,The Brook bell, devoid ofinscription, has Stephen Nortons cross(Plate II.), but uncrowned. The Newn-ham bell has the same cross, but crowned,and the capitals are those used byNorton—it has also the cross, Fig.
The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . Fig. 21. Chronological Account. I will dismiss next a group of bells connected with the lastthree groups by lettering; but I am unable, at present, to domore than guess at the founders name. They are : ... 2nd BrookNewnhamPenshurstSandhurst 4th 3rd and 4th 4th. and Fior. they22. all bear the foundry-stamp,The Brook bell, devoid ofinscription, has Stephen Nortons cross(Plate II.), but uncrowned. The Newn-ham bell has the same cross, but crowned,and the capitals are those used byNorton—it has also the cross, Fig. inscription is a somewhat unusualFig. 22. one— The Penshurst bells differ between themselves. The 3rdhas two crosses, one formed of four fleurs-de-lis like Stephen Nortons, but on a diamond-shaped stamplike Fig. 9, not a square one ; the othercross is Fig. 23. The capitals areStephen Nortons, but uncrowned. ThePenshurst 4th has the same capitalscrowned — Stephen Nortons crownedcross and the cross, Fig. i. The Sand-hurst bell has also Nortons crownedcapitals, and the same cross, twice re-peated, as that on the 3rd at Penshurst, first above mentioned.
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