Bow Church the people of Bow promised to acknowledge themselves as parishioners of Stepney and agreed to pay 24 shillings annually for repairs of the mother church, and to dispense with their attendance there, except on the feast of Saint Dunstan, and on the Wednesday in Whitsunweek, when they were to accompany the rest of the parishioners in procession to Saint Paul's Cathedral. In 1556 at Bow, during the reign of Mary I of England, and under the authority of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, many people were brought by cart from Newgate and burned at the stake in front of Bow
Church bell influence, especially that of Irish missionaries. Before the use of church bells, Greek monasteries would ring a flat metal plate (see "semantron") to announce services. The "signa" and "campanae" used to announce services before Irish influence may have been flat plates like the "semantron" rather than bells. The oldest surviving circle of bells in Great Britain is housed in St Lawrence Church, Ipswich. Church bell A church bell in the Christian tradition is a bell which is rung in a church for a variety of ceremonial purposes, and can be heard outside the building. Traditionally they were used to call