The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . uller states ( Hist, of Waltham Abbey) thatthe bells which the parishioners had purchased fromthe old steeple were for some time hung- in a tempo-rary frame of timber, erected at the south-east endof the church-yard, (where then stood two large yewtrees) and remained there till the tower was com-pleted ; but that, notwithstanding- gifts of timber, & funds fell so short that the said bells were obligedto be sold to raise m
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . uller states ( Hist, of Waltham Abbey) thatthe bells which the parishioners had purchased fromthe old steeple were for some time hung- in a tempo-rary frame of timber, erected at the south-east endof the church-yard, (where then stood two large yewtrees) and remained there till the tower was com-pleted ; but that, notwithstanding- gifts of timber, & funds fell so short that the said bells were obligedto be sold to raise more money; so that Waltham, which formerly had steeple-less bells, now had a bell-less steeple. This defect was remedied in theearly part of the present century, when a tuneable setof bells was hung in the present tower. The pros-pect from the leads is extensive and pleasant, thoughnot accompanied with any great diversity of old circular staircase leading into the toweropens from the north aisle. The entrance from the tower to the interior of thechurch is accurately delineated in the annexed wood-cut. From the style of its architecture and the ac-. ?TUfi*. companying ornaments, it is evidently of a date longanterior to the tower itself. There can indeed belittle hesitation in assigning its construction to thelatter part of Henry the Thirds reign; the sculpturedfoliage of the capitals on each side, the form of thearch, and the general character of the decorationsbeing evidently characteristic of that period. In all probability this door-way existed in Harolds originalchurch, but was altered into its present form at theperiod here assigned; at which time, also, it is likelythat the two contiguous arches of the nave werewrought from their ancient semicircular shape intothe high-pointed form. Within the tower, affixed against the north and 104 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. south walls of the area, are large tables inscribed ingilt letters with particulars of the benefactions
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