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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Waylett cast the old tenor at Walthamstow St.
Mary in 1727. The churchwardens accounts describe him as "of Windmill
Hill".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He seems to have taken over the Wightman/ Bagley
foundry after the unfortunate demise of Matthew Bagley.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 12, 2008 4:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Canewdon
John Waylett bell.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interesting that Richard mentions Canterbury
Cathedral, as the original back eight of the former bells were cast in
1726 by Samuell Knight, who was working with John Waylett in Kent at the
time. Waylett's Kent bells range from 1717 to 1727, but there is I think
no record of his being involved in the Canterbury job, either the eight
bells cast in 1726, of which three still exist in the NW tower, or the
two required to be recast in 1727 and 1728. Nor was he involved in the
transfer of the previous six SW tower bells to Sandwich in 1727,
which included recasting the tenor at the same site as Chapman was to use so
successfully, as Richard says, for Great Dunstan in 1762. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have found bells with Waylett's own name
alone in company with others of the same date with his initials or name along
with those of Knight. It may be that Knight's output, pretty
impressive for the time, required the assistance of the highly itinerant
Waylett to get it all finished. Whether or not Waylett learned his trade from
Knight I don't know, certainly the style of the two is quite individual and
many of their bells have responded well to modern tuning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a chime of sixteen small bells,
largest 14 or 15 inches diameter, thirteen of them by John Waylett, at
the Old Tolbooth in Stirling, the two largest only being inscribed and dated
1729. RWMC quotes Walters in saying that Waylett was working in London at the
time. Did Waylett make the journey, one wonders: in the event he was paid £36
for the "thirteen bells ... being to come from London." His other
peregrinations suggest that he might have enjoyed the
journey. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Congratulations to Canewdon on their forthcoming
restoration - one of the longest-standing of
all unringables.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 12, 2008 3:18
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Canewdon
John Waylett bell.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Optima color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Optima">Have you looked
through your churchwarden’<WBR>s accounts to see if there are any references
to the casting of this bell? <O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Optima">If the accounts
survive, they may contain a list of materials that the bell founder had
sourced locally: bricks for a temporary furnace, etc.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Optima">Hard as it may be
for us to imagine these days, it was quite common place for itinerant bell
founders to a temporary bell foundry close to the church for which they had
been contracted to cast a bell. William Chapman set up a furnace
and casting pit in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral in 1762 and cast a
three ton bell for the Cathedral …imagine the health and safety risk
assessment document you’d have to write to do that
today!<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Brian Meldon<BR><B><SPAN
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
cracked Canewdon treble, 3rd and tenor bells were taken down and<BR>sent
away for repair last Thursday, 8th May, by the Whitechapel
Bell<BR>Foundry.<BR>One of them, the 1707 John Waylett tenor, was possibly
cast locally.<BR>It would be nice if we could be more certain about this for
our<BR>records. This is the bell with the wonderfully spelt name
`WETHR<BR>IENNENS' on the inscription band.<BR>John Waylett cast 4 or
possibly 5 bells in the Rochford area of <ST1>Essex</ST1><BR>in 1707,
Pagelsham's tenor (in `about 1706'), Little Wakering treble,<BR>2nd and
tenor and our Canewdon tenor, amazingly all still survive today.<BR>What
local facilities would have been required for him to cast these<BR>bells? In
Canewdon there was a forge in the blacksmiths shop for<BR>example, would
this had been an option? <BR>There is also an interesting local and
apparently factual, tale about<BR>our tenor being upturned outside the
Anchor pub and filled with ale<BR>when new in 1707.(I don't think we will be
repeating that event this<BR>time!)The Anchor is opposite the old forge site
and at the far end of<BR>the village from the church. The bell would have to
have been taken<BR>past the road to the church to reach the pub if it had
been delivered<BR>overland. Having now seen bells being cast at Whitechapel,
casting a<BR>bell locally would be quite an achievement even today never
mind 300<BR>years ago.<BR>I know that John Waylett was based in Bishop's
Stortford and it is<BR>thought that he was associated with John Thornton of
<ST1><ST1>Sudbury</ST1></ST1> who took<BR>over the foundry there in 1708
after Henry Pleasant had died in 1707.<BR>He is also thought to have been
using a foundry in Royston in 1707 as<BR>well. But all these locations would
have been a very long way to<BR>transport a bell in 1707.<BR>It is almost
certain that we will not be able to find a definitive<BR>answer as to where
our Waylett bell was cast, but it is worth a try.<BR><BR>Brian
Meldon<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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