Repton and its neighbourhood : $b a descriptive guide of the archæology, &c. of the districtHipkins, F. C. (Frederick Charles)
History
Repton and its neighbourhood : $b a descriptive guide of the archæology, &c. of the district
Hipkins, F. C. (Frederick Charles)
Repton (England) -- Description and travel; Repton (England) -- History
During the restoration of the Church in 1886, the opening of the west
arch necessitated the removal of the ringers’ chamber floor, which had
been made, at some period or other, between the ground floor and the
groined roof, so the ringers had to mount above the groined ceiling when
they had to ring or chime the bells. There, owing to want of distance
between them and the bells, the labour and inconvenience of ringing was
doubled, the want of sufficient leverage was much felt: now the ringers
stand on the ground floor, and with new ropes and new “sally-guides”
their labour is lessened, and the ringing improved.
When the bells were brought back from Loughboro’ I made careful
“rubbings” of the inscriptions, legends, bell-marks, &c., before they
were raised and fixed in the belfry. The information thus obtained,
together with that in Vol. XIII. of the _Reliquary_, has enabled me to
publish the following details about the bells.
The “rubbings” and “squeezes” for the article in the _Reliquary_ were
obtained by W. M. Conway (now Sir Martin Conway) when he was a boy at
Repton School.
[Illustration: Plate 6.
REPTON BELL MARKS AND ORNAMENTS.]
_The 1st (treble) Bell._
On the haunch, between three lines, one above, two below,
FRAVNCIS THACKER OF LINCOLNS INN ESQᴿ, 1721.
a border: fleurs-de-lis (fig. 7): Bell-mark of Abraham Rudhall, (a famous
bell-founder of Gloucester): border (fig. 7).
A catalogue of Rings of Bells cast by A. R. and others, from 1684-1830,
is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: this bell is mentioned as the gift of
Francis Thacker.
At the east end of the north aisle of our Church there is a mural
monument to his memory.
_The 2nd Bell._
On the crown a border of fleurs-de-lis (fig. 9). Round the haunch,
Is sweetly toling men do call to taste on meats that feed the
soule
between two lines above and below, then below the same border (fig. 9)
inverted.
1622 Godfrey Thacker Iane Thacker
This bell is referred to in the Churchwardens’ accounts under dates 1615
and 1623.
_The 3rd Bell._
Round the haunch, between two lines,
THOˢ. GILBERT & IOHN TETLEY CHVRCH WARDENS 1774 PACK & CHAPMAN
OF LONDON FECIT
Below, a border, semicircles intertwined.
This is the bell referred to in the extract quoted above from George
Gilbert’s diary.
_The 4th Bell._
Round the haunch, between six lines (3 above and 3 below),
✠ Melodie Nomen Tenet Magdelene
a shield: three bells (two and one), with a crown between them (fig. 1),
(Bell mark of Richard Brasyer, a celebrated Norwich Bell founder, who
died in 1513) a lion’s head on a square (fig. 2): a crown on a square
(fig. 3); and a cross (fig. 5).
_The 5th Bell._
Round the haunch, between two lines, one above, one below,
✠ Vox du̅i̅ ihū x̅r̅i̅ vox exultarionis
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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