The Loughborough Bell Foundry
Taylor’s completed a major project here last year, installing a new ring of twelve, plus three semi tone bells and an automatic chiming system. To finish the project the parish has now placed an order for the installation of a sound control floor above the bells and for the weather proofing of the louvres.
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New ladders will be manufactured and installed to allow safe access to this 7 cwt ground floor ring of six.
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The PCC of this church has placed an order for galvanised steel access ladders and walkways to be manufactured and installed in the belfry of this church which houses an unringable 7 cwt six.
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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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An order has been placed to cast a new ring of six bells, with a tenor bell weighing 5 cwts for this church. All new ringing fittings will be manufactured, together with a new galvanised steel bell frame which will be sited lower in the tower. The existing unringable five and their hardwood bell frame […]
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A new ring of eight bells, with a tenor bell weighing 6 cwts, has been installed at this church as as a centenary memorial to the British & Commonwealth soldiers who gave their lives in World War I. All new ringing fittings were manufactured, together with a galvanised steel bell frame, which was seated on […]
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A major restoration project has been completed on this 14 cwt ring of six. The bells are the work of three different founders and date between 1535 and 1758. The oak bellframe dated from 1758, and this was carefully dismantled and part of it reconstructed on a new galvanised steel grillage in the middle chamber […]
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Work has been completed to allow this 13 cwt eight to be rung once more. After building work inside the tower, when a wall was erected between the organ and ringing area, the ropes of bells 1 & 2 fell outside the ringing chamber – the wrong side of the new wall. Bells 1, 2, […]
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