Affpuddle (St. Laurence)

St. Laurence, Affpuddle, from the South, 2013.

Sources:

• Betjeman, J., Sir John Betjeman's guide to English parish churches, revised and updated by Nigel Kerr. London: HarperCollins, 1993, p. 180.
• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. 8.
• Hutchins, J. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by W. Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, Vol. 1, 1861, pp. 207-209; plates facing pp. 150, 208.
• Jenkins, S. England's thousand best churches. London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999, p. 146.
• Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, pp. 73-74.
• Mee, A., ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 17-18.
• Pitfield, F.P., Dorset Parish Churches, A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 19-21.
• Raven, J.J., The church bells of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Vol. 24, 1903, pp. 103-148.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 2, South-East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1970, pt. 1, pp. 2-4.

Bells:

Details of the bells are given by Raven (1903, p. 127), as corrected by Walters (1939, p. 114):

Four Bells. Tenor - Diam., 44in; height, 35in.

1. T P   R S   C W   T P Anno Domini 1685
2. Thomas Michel, George Neppred, C.W. Anno Domini
   W K B F 1755
3. Prayse the Lord. J. W. 1598.
4. Thomas Scut, John White, Churchwardens. W P   F F 1655.

This conflicts with RCHME (1970, p. 3) who say that the Treble is by Thomas Purdue, 1685, recast 1827; the 2nd by John Wallis of Salisbury, 1598; the 3rd by William Purdue, 1655, recast 1927; the Tenor by William Knight, 1722.

Sources:

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