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The Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust has, like much of the UK’s heritage, been affected by the COVID-19 crisis. It received a £93,300 Heritage Emergency Fund grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund earlier this year and £246,500 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage, as well as a £499,918 Heritage At Risk Urgent Repairs Grant from Historic England.
Famous Bells Around the World
1. The Great George Bell at Liverpool Cathedral 2. St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney 3. National Carillon, Canberra 4. Siege Bell War Memorial, Malta 5. The Custom House, Shanghai, China
6. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A
7. National Cathedral, Washington DC, USA 8. St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore 9. Niagara Falls, Rainbow Bridge, Canada 10. City Hall, Capetown South Africa 11. St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland 12. The Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland
13. The Parish Church of St Mary, Minera, Clwyd, Wales
More information available from: Sophie Lawrenson at
The National Lottery Heritage Fund:
Sophie.Lawrenson@
heritagefund.org.uk on 07514642163;
Rebecca Morris at Jennie Holland PR for the Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust:
Rebecca.Morris@
jenniehollandpr.com
Siege Bell War Memorial, Malta M35
It has also received grants of £40,000 from The Pilgrim Trust, £10,000 from the Architectural Heritage Fund, £150,000 from Garfield Weston, £50,000 from Swire Charitable Trust and many generous donations from other Trusts and members of the public. The Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust would like to say a big thank you to all donors.
The Loughborough Bellfoundry - amazing facts
1. The bells that can be heard in The Pogues and Kirsty McColl’s Fairytale of New York were cast here for St Thomas’s Church, in Fifth Avenue, New York.
2. The bell used for the AC/DC track Hells Bells was also cast at Loughborough. The band then took the specially-branded AC/DC bell on its 1980 Back in Black tour.
3. The largest church bell in Britain, Great Paul, was cast at the Loughborough Bellfoundry in 1881 and now hangs in St Paul’s Cathedral.
4. Many thousands of bells that ring in Churches and Cathedrals were cast at the Loughborough Bellfoundry.
5. More large bells have been cast at the Loughborough Bellfoundry than any other bellfoundry in Britain - more than 200 of which weigh in excess of two tonnes.
6. John Taylor & Co. continues a line of bell founding which has been unbroken since the middle of the 14th Century.
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