Wool (Holy Rood)

Holy Rood, Wool

John Hutchins, The History and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. Westminster: John Bowyer Nichols, 1861, Vol. 1, pp. 360-362.
A.C. Fryer, Notes on Wool church, Dorset. Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Vol. V, 1899, pp. 35-38. Available from: <URL:http://www.dorset-churches.org.uk/papers/fryer-1898.html>
G. Dru Drury, The altar frontal from Wool church. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol. LV, 1933, pp. 26-31.
Arthur Mee, ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 317-319.
John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 495.
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. 2, pp. 402-403.
F.P. Pitfield, Purbeck parish churches. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 99-105.
Alan Brown, A backward glimpse of Wool. Wool: Alan Brown, 1990, pp. 18-42.
Terence and Eliza Sackett, Francis Frith's Dorset Churches. Salisbury: Frith Book Co., 2000, p. 78.

Holy Rood Church, Wool by Alan Brown (http://www.dorset-churches.org.uk/papers/wool-church-guide.html)

6, 11-0-24 in G.

No.	Inscription:	Founder details:
1.	In loving memory of my dear mother and my dear grandmother Caroline Esther Hedgecock. 1906. Florence Dobie. John Dobie 1907.	Gillett & Johnson, Croydon
2.	Love God I W. 1606	John Wallis, Salisbury
3.	John Hayte CW. Anno 1738. WK BF	William Knight, Closworth [?]
4.	Searve God I W. 1606	John Wallis, Salisbury
5.	H I. C W. T P. anno domini 1659.	Thomas Purdue, Closworth [?]
6.	These bells rehung, tenor and treble added, 1907. Arthur C.B. Dobie, Vicar. Jas. Spicer and Walter Wright, churchwardens.	Gillett & Johnson, Croydon

Wool Church - 2nd bell

2nd Bell, cast by John Wallis, Salisbury 1606.

Sources:

J. J. Raven, The church bells of Dorset [part 2]. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Vol. XXV, 1904, pp. 33-128 [Bells described on p. 123].
H. B. Walters, Dorset church bells. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol. 60, pp. 97-120. [Coombe bells are mentioned on pp. 101, 115].
Alan Brown, A backward glimpse of Wool. Wool: Alan Brown, 1990, p. 26, 28-30.

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