220 THE CHURCH BELLS OP DORSET. 



successor, the Rev. R. P. Stickland, has given a lasting memorial 

 of that love for bell music which is dear to so many hearts by 

 association as well as from its inherent melody. 



In closing this imperfect appendix to the inscriptions in the 

 county, I desire to return my best thanks to the members of the 

 Dorset Field Club and other fellow-labourers, and especially to 

 the Rev. W. Miles Barnes, the Hon. Editor of the Club's 

 " Proceedings," and the Rev. C. W. Dicker, from whose 

 drawings the blocks of engravings were prepared. Had it not 

 been for the cordial co-operation of gentlemen who, with much 

 trouble and inconvenience, climbed the towers and rubbed the 

 inscriptions, this work could never have been carried through. 



Our history must end with a notice of the Cattistock carillon, 

 necessary rather for those outside the county than for Dorset 

 readers. The munificence of the late Rev. H. Keith Barnes, 

 Rector of the parish from 1863 to 1875, not only provided the 

 fine tower in which the bells hang, but also, with the help of 

 members of his family and other kind friends, the bells them- 

 selves. The idea seems due to Mr. Barnes's admiration of 

 the celebrated carillon at Mechlin and other Belgian towns. 

 The example, set first by Boston in 1867, was due to the 

 impression produced in like manner on Mr. William Simonds, 

 Mayor of Boston in 1865. Here there are 44 bells. Aberdeen, 

 Eaton Hall, Worcester Cathedral, Shoreditch, and Bradford 

 Town Hall have followed suit, and now this retired village is 

 charmed with the music of its 35 bells. The inscriptions will be 

 found in their place, arranged in order contrary to the campano- 

 logical system, which always begins from the smallest. In 

 IQOI a change was made, the bell in G being exchanged for one 

 in A sharp, cast by Felix van Aerschodt, of Louvain, son of the 

 noted Severin van Aerschodt, the original founder of the peal. 

 This change was made on account of tune exigencies. A 

 correction, therefore, is necessary on p. 35, reading in the peal 

 3 and 4 for 4 and 5, and among the other bells 5 for 3. For 

 years after their arrival at Cattistock the only voices from the 

 Louvain foundry which were heard were those of the peal, till, 



