"In ye great storm in ye year 1703, ye spire of this church
was blown down, and two of ye old bells I remember standing in ye
belfry till ye tower was pulled down in 1724, in order to be rebuilt
It was rebuilt accordingly, and the bells were then new cast, with ye
assistance of Mr. Harington ye Vicar, who gave a new bell, on which
his name is inscribed, so as to make a peal of six bells. On these
bells are the following inscriptions:- 1. Prosperity to this parish,
1726. 2. Peace and good neighbourhood, 1726. 3. Prosperity to ye
Church of England, 1726. 4. William Harington, Vicar. A. R. 1726
(A. R. means Abraham Rudhall, ye bell founder). 5. Has no inscription,
but 1726 in gilt figures. 6. Jonathan Power and Robert Hewett,
Churchwardens, 1726." - J. B.]
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Sir William Dugdale told me he finds that painting in glasse came
first into England in King John's time. Before the Reformation I
believe there was no county or great town in England but had glasse
painters. Old ...... Harding, of Blandford in Dorsetshire, where I
went to schoole, was the only countrey glasse-painter that ever I knew.
Upon play dayes I was wont to visit his shop and furnaces. He dyed
about 1643, aged about 83, or more.
In St. Edmund's church at Salisbury were curious painted glasse
windowes, especially in the chancell, where there was one window, I
think the east window, of such exquisite worke that Gundamour, the
Spanish Ambassadour, did offer some hundreds of pounds for it, if it
might have been bought.
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