Mention of this bell is thus
made in the Survey of the Priory of Sandwell, in the county of Stafford,
taken at the time of the Reformation: "Itm the belframe standyng betw: the
chauncell and the church, w^t. a litle _sanct_^m bell in the same."
Generally, however, a small hand-bell was carried and rung at the proper
times in the service, by the acolyte; and in inventories of ancient church
furniture we find it often noticed as "_a sacringe bell_;" but in an
inventory of goods belonging to the chapel of Thorp, Northamptonshire, it
is described as "a litle _sanctus bell_." A small sacringe bell, of
bell-metal, with the exception of the clapper, which was of iron, was in
1819 discovered on the removal of some rubbish from the ruins of St.
Margaret's Priory, Barnstable; and within the last few years a small
sanctus bell was found on the site of a religious house at Warwick[172-*].
[Illustration: Ancient Sanctus Bell, found at Warwick.]
Passing under the rood-loft, we enter the chancel: this was so called from
the screen or lattice-work (cancelli) of stone or wood by which it was
separated from the nave, and which succeeded the curtain or veil which
anciently formed this division of the church[173-*].
[Illustration: Stalls and Desk, St. Margaret's Church, Leicester.
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