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By the 13th century BCE, bells weighing over 150 kilograms (330 pounds) were being cast in China. After 1000 CE, iron became the most commonly used metal for bells instead of bronze. The earliest dated iron bell was manufactured in 1079, found in Hubei Province. [10] Bells west of China did not reach the same size until the 2nd millennium CE.
The tower has a chamfered plinth, quoins, diagonal buttresses, a west window, two-light bell openings, and an embattled parapet with crocketed corner finials. The porch has a sundial in the gable , and the inner doorway has a round arch with three orders of chevrons on columns with decorated cushion capitals .
Small iron bells of 8th or 9th century date, argued to be for cow or sheep, have been excavated from upland farm settlements at Crummack Dale and Gauber High Pasture in the Yorkshire Dales. [11] An early depiction of a bellwether, the leading sheep of a flock, on whose neck a bell is hung, is in the Carolingian Stuttgart Psalter of the ninth ...
The farmhouse and farm buildings are in gritstone, with quoins, and roofs of sandstone slate roof with stone ridges. The farmhouse and attached cottage to the west have two storeys and four bays . On the front are two doorways, one blocked, and sash windows .
In the centre is a doorway approached by steps, flanked by cast iron railings with urn finials. The doorway has a divided fanlight, and a cornice hood on fluted consoles. The windows are sashes with keystones. [28] II: Hackness Grange Country Hotel
A range of farm buildings in sandstone, with pantile roofs and coped gables. It consists of a barn with a loft, to the left is a single-storey stable and cart shed, and to the right is a range of byres or loose boxes. They contain stable doors and fixed lights, and on the barn is a wrought iron weathervane. [22] II
The bell cast for Waltham in 1602 was probably the first made by Joseph Hatch, who otherwise used a foundry stamp of a circle containing three bells, for example on two bells cast in the same year for Egerton. [11] [10] [Fn 3] In 1887 there remained 155 of his bells in Kent, and in 1969 there were 19 in Canterbury alone.
The gates were made by Robert Bakewell for the Old Hall and were moved here in 1829. They are in wrought iron and consist of a pair of high gates and a pair of wicket gates. These all hang from wrought iron piers. All are elaborately decorated. At the outer sides of the wicket gates are square stone piers. [8] [16] II: Castle Farm House