The Loughborough Bell Foundry
An exciting project to create a mobile ring of bells is now well advanced. The specification outlined by the Council Officers is for a light ring of six bells to be mounted in a tower on a trailer to be pulled by a car, and to be erected by lifting by hand to a standing […]
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An order has been received for the casting of two quite large bells for a customer overseas who wishes to remain anonymous at this stage. The larger of the two bells will have a diameter of 48″ and will weight approximately 21 cwts., the smaller will have a diameter of 39″ and weigh approximately 12 […]
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The tower of this monastery houses a heavy chime of bells, with a bass bell weighing 25 cwts. Originally cast as a diatonic ten with two semi tones by Matthew O’Byrne of Dublin in 1898 this chime was destroyed by fire in 1920. Taylor’s was commissioned to recast ten of the bells, and this was […]
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This church houses a very fine Taylor 22 cwt eight in the key of Eb. The entire installation is “modern” in bell terms, dating from 1959, and has a fine tradition in change ringing. The ring is to be augmented with two treble bells to create a ring of ten. To accomplish this the bells, […]
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An order has been placed for a small bell and all ringing fittings to be manufactured for a private house in Germany to allow the customer to keep his handling skill honed in between visits to practice the Art of Change Ringing in the UK.
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A new 15″ diameter bell is to be cast for this church and hung in its steeple for chiming. It will be supplied with a headstock, electro-magnetic hammer and a programmable automatic chiming unit.
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This beautiful mediaeval Minster Church houses a magnificent Taylor twelve with a tenor bell weighing 34 cwts. The back ten were cast at Loughborough in 1924 and hung in a twelve bell cast iron and steel bell frame with all new fittings. In 1986 the two treble bells were cast at Taylor’s and hung to […]
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The 9 cwt ring of six bells at this church is to be fully restored and rehung on new fittings by Whites of Appleton. It has been decided that the 1689 tenor bell will be retired from the ring and a new tenor bell will be cast. Whites have commissioned Taylor’s to cast the new […]
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