Keywords: campanology architecture outdoor In Memory of THOMAS CURTIS Which here in Silence lie As Known by this Tenor Bell did Die The Fatal blow on him did fall Just as these Bells were tuned all Great was his Pain we may be sure Which he with Patience did Endure But this Observe above the Rest God taketh First whom he likes Best. Who died March ye (11? 1747?) Aged (33?) "Thomas Curtis, who was baptised in the church in 1713 and 35 years later was killed in an accident while he was re-hanging the bells in the tower; he is buried in the churchyard." www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2014/10/netherbury/ In Memory of THOMAS CURTIS Which here in Silence lie As Known by this Tenor Bell did Die The Fatal blow on him did fall Just as these Bells were tuned all Great was his Pain we may be sure Which he with Patience did Endure But this Observe above the Rest God taketh First whom he likes Best. Who died March ye (11? 1747?) Aged (33?) "Thomas Curtis, who was baptised in the church in 1713 and 35 years later was killed in an accident while he was re-hanging the bells in the tower; he is buried in the churchyard." www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2014/10/netherbury/ |