The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . ere puzzle. They are, in addition tothe treble (formerly) at Cuxton, dealt with under the Lom-bardic bells, ( Kemsing \ St. Pauls Cray ... ... 1st ... 2nd ) ( Canterbury, St. Paul ... 3rd j \ ,, St. Peter ... 2nd 1 \ Brenzett 3rd 1 Southfleet 5th It will be noticed that I have bracketed these both to leftand to right. The left hand brackets denote similarity ofinitial cross ; those to the right similarity of capital first two bells bear the cross Fig. 7. The next threehave the cross Fig. 10, while the So
The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . ere puzzle. They are, in addition tothe treble (formerly) at Cuxton, dealt with under the Lom-bardic bells, ( Kemsing \ St. Pauls Cray ... ... 1st ... 2nd ) ( Canterbury, St. Paul ... 3rd j \ ,, St. Peter ... 2nd 1 \ Brenzett 3rd 1 Southfleet 5th It will be noticed that I have bracketed these both to leftand to right. The left hand brackets denote similarity ofinitial cross ; those to the right similarity of capital first two bells bear the cross Fig. 7. The next threehave the cross Fig. 10, while the Southfleet bell has asimilar but larger cross (Fig. 11). As regards capital letters, those on the Kemsing bell arethe same as at Cuxton—quite small. The next two havethem of medium size, the same as those used by WilliamDawe and figured above. The next two have a very muchlarger and handsomer set altogether ; and the same capitals,but in this instance crowned, appear on the Southfleet respect to the black-letter smalls, Kemsing and E 2 28 ClironoloQ-ical Fig. io. Fig. II. Canterbury St. Paul have comparatively small ones; theother four have the same largest ones as are used by William Dawe, which, as regards theSt. Pauls Cray bell, are utterlyout of proportion, but withthe other three harmonize verywell. As regards other orna-mentation, the Kemsing andSt. Pauls Canterbury bellshave the small laver-pot shield(Fig. 6) on the inscription-band ; the St. Pauls Crayhas it four times on the crown,as has also the bell at Canter-bury St. Peters, but onlythree times ; while the Brenzett bell has a much larger
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