Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 418
ROWED BELLS. 709 Tlio church, as we have seen, has no tower or spire. Governor Fenwicke,no doubt, had a conscientious aversion to steeple-liouses, and so in placeof a belfry there is nothing more than a small open turret, with cujx^la, at eitherangle of the west front. The parishioners were not,… … middle of the lastcentury. This isnot its only pe-culiarity, for it isadorned on the out-side with the an-cient stocks of theborough; it per-petuates anotherold custom by sounding the curfew ateight of the clock every evening thewhole year round; and a part of it isused as a lock-up, which is…
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