74 THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. 



5. I to the Church the living call too the grave do summon al. 

 M r . Edward Lawrence & M* Henry Walbridge Cl 1 Wardens 

 Thomas Bilbie fecit 1772 ^ 6 6 



Peal rehung as Jubilee memorial by Blackbourn, Salisbury, in 1898. 



12. POORTON NORTH (S. Mary Magdalene). 



A single bell in a hardly accessible bell turret. 



13. RAMPISHAM (S. Michael and A. AA 



Five bells. Tenor Diam., 4zin. ; height, 27^1. 



1. * (28A) fflflRIp 



2. Anno domini 1600 



3. 3* (2) Smuta w a n a 



4. Anno dni W P. 1615. 



5. (Blank) 



There is a legend at Kampisham that the Purdue bells were intended for 

 Cattistock, but were intercepted on their way there from Closworth and 

 hung in the Rampisham tower. 



" The persons are William Lawrence & his wife William Lawrence was 

 a judge in Scotland during the Civil Wars. He died 1681-2. Tradition 

 says that .... he left to the poor of the parish of Eampisham a 

 farm known as Broad witcham. Tradition further says that he did this 

 because he loved the bells of Eampisham. A sort of incidental support is 

 given to this tradition by the fact that time out of mind the ringers of 

 Eampisham have received 1 from the rent of the farm every All Hallows 

 eve." From a letter. 



14- SHIPTON GORGE (S. Martin). 



Three bells. Tenor Diam., 32^in. ; height, 25in. 



i, 2. Anno domini 1655 T P. I L. P K. 

 3. ^ (z6A) Spn<9 p GG OFJ GI (cracked and a piece, 

 about 4 inches square broken out of the crown). 



