Church Bells of Gloucestershire
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- Author(s) Bliss, Mary, & Frederick Sharpe
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 726pp; illus
- Publisher Alan Sutton Publishing
- Place Published Gloucester
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals largely with church bells in Gloucestershire parish churches providing lengthy and detailed descriptions of them [pp103-688]. Also provides biographical details of bellfounders [pp9-94] who supplied the bells, many of whom were located outside Gloucestershire. Also very short profiles of bellhangers [pp95-6]. Significant profiles are provided for the following: 'Aldbourne Foundry' [pp9-10], Wiltshire; 'Bagley family' [pp1-13], Chacomb, Northamptonshire; 'The Bakers' [pp14-6], West Midlands'; 'Bristol Medieval Foundry' [pp18-23]; 'Burford Foundry' [pp24-7], Oxfordshire; 'Gloucester Medieval Founders' [pp32-8]; 'London Medieval Founders' [pp44-6]; 'John Palmar' [pp48-53], Canterbury; 'Purdue family [pp53-6], Closworth, Somerset; 'Rudhall family' [pp57-77], Gloucester; 'Taylor family' [pp78-82], St Neots; 'Warner family' [pp82-4], London; 'Whitechapel Foundry' [pp84-91], London; 'Witmores / Wetmores' [pp91-3], Bredon, Worcestershire; 'Worcester Medieval Foundry' [pp93-4]