Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers- Historical Information

Established January 17 1881

Photographs of Founders and bellhangers marks

Click here for founders or here for bell hangers. Photographs of complete bells are accessed from this page.

Founders

Bagley James
Knight Ellis I, Ellis & Henry II, Ellis II & Henry III, Samuel
Neale Henry
Taylors of Loughborough, John Taylor 1853 on East Hendred fifth
Whitechapel foundry, London

Ellis Knight I

Chilton (ONB) bell 4 backwards N on right ©KMC 04 Nov 2000

Ellis Knight initials on bell 4 Chilton (ONB) ©KMC 06 Dec 2000
Ellis & Henry II Knight

Chilton (ONB) bell 5 by 1665 they had found an 'N' the right way round, but lacked a 'U' ©KMC 06 Dec 2000

Ellis II & Henry III Knight

Treble 1674 in East Hendred (ONB) ©KMC 18 Aug 2004
Taylor example on a Trinity House bell

This bell was in the sea on a Trinity House Buoy, now in Bell 3 in Fulbrook Oxon ©KMC 2004
Whitechapel example photographed 9 June 2002 on Milton bell no 6
Inside the circle is a crown above 3 bells and the initials " WA & D" with H" below
These are the initials of the foundry owners, surname Hughes, at that date. ©KMC 2002
Whitechapel borders cast in 2003
These were on the new bells in Fulbrook, near Burford in Chipping Norton Branch.
border on two new trebles ©KMC 8 Jun 2004

Detail of the border on bell 4. ©KMC 8 Jun 2004

Click here for diagrams of earlier Whitechapel marks
from F.Sharpe books on Bells of Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
More photographs of recent Whitechapel borders can be found on Fulbrook new bells of 2003

Bell hangers

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