The Loughborough Bell Foundry
The PCC of this beautiful Suffolk church has placed an order for a major restoration, recasting and augmentation of their 15cwt ring of six. Four of the existing bells will be recast, and two new bells will be added to two of the former Prinknash Abbey bells which were cast by Taylor’s in 1910 & […]
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The 17″ single bell at this ancient hospital chapel was cast by Warner’s in 1866. The bell is to be taken down and brought to Loughborough for conservation work and for the manufacture of new fittings for swing chiming before being rehung by members of the K.C.A.R. bell restoration group.
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The PCC of this church has placed an order for work to their 16 cwt ring of six bells. The bells were rehung in 1897, the work being undertaken by Mears & Stainbank who also supplied and fitted new gudgeons & bearings in 1965. Bells 5 & 6 will have new cast iron headstocks manufactured […]
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The PCC of this church has placed an order for a major restoration and augmentation of their 17 cwt eight. The bells will be removed from the tower and brought back to Loughborough for conservation work, including specialist bronze strengthening welding to their crowns and soundbows. The bells will be tuned to match the 1930 […]
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The PCC of this church has placed an order for a major restoration and augmentation to be undertaken on their unringable ancient 12 cwt four – the bells date between 1587 & 1702. The bells will be removed from the tower and brought to Loughborough where conservation work on them will be undertaken. It is […]
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The ancient unringable 10 cwt ring of five that hang in Norton Bavant Tower is the work of four different founders and the bells date between circa 1380 and 1894. The bells are tuned as the front five of a ring of six. The bells are to be removed from the tower and will be […]
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The 7 cwt ring of six bells in this tower is the work of Thomas II Mears and dates fropm 1838. The bells are to be removed to Loughborough for conservation, cleaning and tuning. New cast iron ringing headstocks will be manufactured and fitted before the bells are rehung in their existing 1838 bell frame […]
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The single bell from this neo-classical church will be removed from its bell cote and brought back to Loughborough for conservation. New traditional fittings will be manufactured for stationary chiming before the bell is rehung at Little Gidding.
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