The Loughborough Bell Foundry
This church is relocating to a new building, and Taylor’s has been asked to supply a new 16″ bell from stock. This will be hung for stationary chiming with a new electro-magnetic chiming hammer and programmable controller unit.
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An order has been placed by this church for the installation of the ring of six bells originally destined for the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. These bells originally hung in Writtle Parish Church, Essex and have now been purchased by The Keltek Trust after it was found that they were too heavy for the […]
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The Warner tenor bell from Richmond, North Yorkshire, together with its 1930’s Taylor ringing fittings, have been refurbished and will be exported to the Chemmalammattam parish church in India.
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This 21 cwt ring of eight dates from 1909 and is the work of the Loughborough Foundry. The church has been made redundant, and so the entire installation has been purchased by Taylors for rennovation and re-use elsewhere. The bells and fittings have been removed from the tower and brought back to Loughborough.
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Six of the eight bells in this ring were modern Taylor bells, and a seventh has been acquired from Holy Trinity, Bury, Lancashire. This has been tuned to match and replaces the existing Joseph Smith 6th bell. The Taylor fittings from 1901 have been adapted to fit the replacement bell, and it has now been […]
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A 17cwt ring of ten has been installed at this church. Eight of the bells originally hung at St John the Baptist, Bollington, Cheshire and were removed some years ago and stored at Loughborough. They were a Taylor eight cast in 1880, and had been completely restored and rehung in 1931 by Taylors. Originally rehung […]
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This ring of eight was cast by John Briant of Hertford in 1812 and originally hung in St Alkmund’s Parish Church in Shrewsbury. It was exported to Hawaii in 1991 and Eayre & Smith rehung the bells in a new steel bellframe with all new fittings. The 3rd headstock fractured into two pieces and this […]
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Malta’s National Maritime Museum has now been sent a chime of eight bells, largest 7 cwts. These are to be a memorial to seafarers, be they Maltese, British etc., who through their ultimate sacrifice defended the island and thus shaped its history. The smallest four bells of the chime formerly hung at St Jude’s Parish […]
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