[Bell Historians] hlep, please

[Anne Willis]

Can anyone identify the towers where the bells with these inscriptions are?

>From W C Lukis's papers in the Guernsey Museum, probably from the 1850s


Firstly, one bell

top line in inscription band: T
2nd line: TH
lower down, perhaps on waist:
cross ANTHONY BOND MADE ME 1615.



According to Colchester's 'Hampshire Church Bells' Anthony Bond cast bells
for St Lawrence Winchester in 1621; North Stoneham in 1623; and St Helen's,
IOW, in 1610, so somewhere in Hampshire might be a possibility. Colchester
classifies Bond as 'itinerant', but I don't know how accurate this is.

Anne Willis