Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial (1890)
Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923, Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 244
ORROWED BELLS. rfi9 Tlio church, as we have seen, has no tower or spire. Governor Fenwicke,no doubt, had a conscientious aversion to steeple-houses, and so in placeof a belfry there is nothing more than a small open turret, with cupola, 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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