THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. il<) 



suddenly last year. Those at Hinton Parva are stated on p. 108 

 to have been Stainbank's, which is impossible. 



Bells from Cripplegate run into three figures. The story of 

 the Warner family, too long to give here, is well told by 

 Stahlschmidt in his Church Bells of Kent ; * but one remark of 

 his on modern additions is worth recording. It does not apply 

 to Kent alone, or to Cripplegate alone. When bells are added 

 to an existing peal, or recast, they are almost always shorter in 

 form than the older ones. Thus, though the new bells may be 

 quite true in note, the variation in shape produces variation in 

 harmonics, which does not improve the general effect of the 

 whole ring. We have two from the Croydon foundry at Nether 

 Compton and Yetminster, and two from Birmingham at 

 Compton Abbas and Chaldon Herring. 



Lastly, there is the carillon at Cattistock, of which Dorset may 

 be justifiably proud. The earliest English record of a carillon 

 known to me comes from the will of John Baret, of Bury S. 

 Edmund's, 1463, in which he directs that "the Sexteyn of Seynt 

 Marie chirche do the chymes Smythe Requiem eternam " in 

 connection with his Trental and "yeerday." As may be seen 

 in Plate VII. in my Church Bells of Suffolk, the music only 

 extended over five notes. In later days my native Boston set 

 the example of machine music, when in 1867 Louvain supplied 

 a set of 36 bells to extend upwards the old octave of the steeple 

 bells. We have notable instances now at Eaton Hall and 

 Aberdeen, as well as at Cattistock, where the same Louvain 

 foundry, under Severin van Aerschodt, placed the tuneful ring, 

 of which the detail of inscriptions may be found in its place. 

 They are arranged in upward order, after the manner of 

 musicians rather than ringers. The lowest four are in major 

 diatonic scale in the key of E ; all the upper bells are in 

 chromatic sequence. 



They owe their existence to a former Rector, the Rev. H. 

 Keith Barnes, who, assisted by many friends, notably his 



* pp. 114, &c. 



