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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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succeeded to the throne of Ethelwulf their father. King of the WestSaxons, and were succeeded in the kingdom by their next brother, Alfredthe Great. From the roof of the central tower there is a pleasant view over thepicturesquely broken ground which extends for many miles around Sherborne.In the ringing-chamber below hang the ten bells—a sanctus bell, a fire bell, and apeal of eight. The tenor is the smallest of seven sweet-toned bells imported fromTournai, and is said to have been the gift of Cardinal Wolsey. It is a little 320 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. (SlIEUMOIlNE ANU under three tons in woiolit, and, altliou^li it lias been twice recast, it still bearsthe inscription :— By Wulseys gift 1 measure time for ail,To mirth, to grief, to church I ser\e to cull. The allusion to the measurement of time is explained by the fact that it is thisbell which strikes the hours, with a deep but sweet and melodious note. Thefire bell was recast in 1G52, and is of such unusual shape that it makes an
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DORCHESTER, WITH THE ABBEY, FROM LITTLE WITTENHAM. unspeakably hide-ous clangour. It isstill rung whenthere is a fire inthe to^vn. The in-scription ujDon it isan odd mixture ofpiety and practicalexhortation:— Lord, quench this fu-rious flame !Arise ! run ! help ! putout the same. Sherborne has seen some strange ups and downs of fortune. In early agesalternately splendid and inconsiderable, it has for more than three centuries liveda quiet, unchequered existence, broken only by Fairfaxs siege of the castle in1645. The town first emerges from obscurity at the beginning of the eighthcentury, when Ina, King of Wessex, dissociated Cornwall, Devon, Dorset,Somerset, Wilts, and Berks from the see of Winchester, and erected thosecounties into a separate bishopric with its seat at Sherborne. The saintedAldhelm, who in learning and knowledge of the arts was centuries in advanceof his time, was the first bishop. He it was who first translated the LatinPsalter into Saxon ; for him was made the f

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