THE CHURCH fcELLS OF DORSET, liy 



One William Elery, B.F., shows up on the Winterborne 

 Kingston tenor, dated 1749. It is, to the best of my belief, 

 the sole instance of the name. Thomas Janaway, whose 

 foundry at Chelsea (1763-1785) began and ended with him- 

 self, cast the treble at Langton Matravers in 1768. Local 

 work falls off as time goes on, the Metropolis swallowing up 

 more and more of the casting and recasting. From the days of 

 George III. to the present time Whitechapel and Cripplegate 

 are far ahead of the total of other foundries far and near. Of 

 the latter, Aldbourne, though conspicuous by its absence under 

 the Corrs, does something in Dorset under Robert Wells and 

 James Wells, the largest and earliest instance being the five at 

 Witchampton in 1777. Bayley, Pyke, and Kingston, in 

 succession in business at JBridgwater, are found in five towers. 

 Joshua Kipling, of Portsmouth, is only known in our bounds at 

 Corfe Castle. I can find out no more about the Blandford 

 foundry. Salisbury has revived in the beginning of the new 

 century, and appears at Stower Provost and Lytchett Minster ; 

 and Bristol in the Jubilee year at Folke and (I feel sure) at 

 Durweston also, and in a few other towers afterwards. 



Loughborough foundry is the descendant of the grand old 

 Leicester business, which migrated to Kettering and S. Neot's, 

 under the Eayres and Robert Taylor. In the next generation 

 there was another migration of two Taylor brothers to Oxford. 

 The elder, William, from whom we have the Pimperne tenor 

 (1846) remained there, while John went to Loughborough, 

 where his descendants need no notice from me. Their works 

 speak for themselves. 



In the S. Neot's foundry there was a foreman, named Thomas 

 Osborn, who, on the death of Joseph Eayre, carried on the 

 work in conjunction with Edward Arnold, a cousin of Eayre's. 

 The partnership lasted some six years. In 1779 Osborn 

 removed to Downham Market, in Norfolk, his native place, 

 where he did well, took his grandson, William Dobson, into 

 partnership, and died in 1806. The grandson quite maintained 

 the reputation of Downham Market. Many years ago an old 



