Bell

Bell

Bell, (fr. cloche), or as it is sometimes called a Church bell, is a large bell of the usual form. Smaller bells of a different shape are attached to the legs of hawks and falcons, q.v., when they are said to be belled; also to necks of bulls, &c. (fr. clariné).

When the clapper is of a different tincture it is to be so described(fr. bataillé). The cannon or ear may be also of a different tincture from the body or barrel of the bell.

Sable, three church bells argent--PORTER,

Sable, a fesse ermine between three bells argent--BELL.

Argent, three war bells gules--KEDMARSTON, co. Suffolk.

Azure, a lion rampant guardant within an orle of bells argent, cannoned or--OSNEY, co. Lincoln.

Sable, a doe passant between three bells argent--DOOBEL, Sussex, 1695.

Argent, on a cross gules five bells of the first--SEDGEWICKE, Cambridge.

Or, four bars sable; on three escutcheons argent as many church bells of the second, clappers of the first--HALL, Essex.

A belfry occurs as a crest to the family of PORTER, and in this a bell argent is represented as supported between two pillars roofed and spired or, and on the spire a vane of the last.