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Johanna Sturdy's maker's marks. By the 1450s the St Botolph bell-foundry was owned by bellmaker John Sturdy alias Leicester and his wife Johanna Sturdy. [a] By 1459, John had died and Johanna had taken over the foundry, as shown by her correspondence about the warranty for a bell she was supplying to Faversham, Kent. [3]
It also known as the "false bell" and is then dried with gentle heat in a kiln. The false bell is then covered with molten wax and figures and inscriptions, also made of wax, applied on top by hand. The false bell is painted over with three coats of fireproof clay and then enclosed by a steel mantle overcasing. The empty space between the false ...
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Henry McShane (1830-1889), an immigrant from Dundalk, Ireland, established the McShane Bell Foundry in Baltimore, Maryland at Holliday and Centre Streets in 1856. By the late 19th century, the business had produced tens of thousands of bells, including dozens of chimes, shipping them out to churches and public buildings across the USA and beyond, and expanded to a large factory complex on ...
The Grassmayr Bell Foundry in Innsbruck, Tyrol. The Grassmayr Bell Foundry is a maker of church bells founded more than 400 years ago in Innsbruck, Austria.The business was founded by Bartlmä Grassmayr in Habichen, a hamlet in the municipality of Oetz.
[13] On 15 October 2009, in a statement released by UK Bell Foundries Ltd, a consortium of ringers, members of the bell industry and other investors, it was stated that the foundry would reopen on 19 October, reverting to the previous name of John Taylor & Co. [14] [15] Paul Taylor's widow, Mrs Merle Taylor, was honorary president of the new ...
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In 1792, André Louis Vanden Gheyn returned to the bell foundry in Leuven; while he continued working as a bellfounder, he made no carillons. He married Marie-Isabelle Rochet (1751-1843), sister to the organ maker Adrien Rochet. He died in 1833 without having any sons, but his grandson André Louis Jean Van Aerschodt took over the business and ...