Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers- Historical Information

Established January 17 1881

Whitechapel foundry marks and borders

Copied from F. Sharpe The Church Bells of Oxfordshire
or blue text shows marks from The Church Bells of Berkshire
Red text shows marks copied from A.H.Cocks The Church Bells of Buckinghamshire

Scale (centimetres)
scale

Whitechapel foundry marks

Click here for a photograph of a 21st century Whitechapel mark. The motif of 3 bells surrounded by a wreath continues with the initials of the current owners of the foundry between the bells. For further details see The Ringing World Nov 26 2004 page 1133 “100 years of the Hughes family at Whitechapel” or the Foundry website.

Page 27 C8.
mark of Robert Mot, 1570 - 1606 Page 105 Fig.72
mark of Thomas Swain 1752 - 1781 Cocks page 141 Fig.51
mark of Thomas Swain

C08 X072 Y51

Cocks page 95, Fig 43.
mark of Thomas/James Bartlet Cocks page 141 Fig.50
mark of Thomas Swain

Y43 Y50

Cocks Plate XXI
Fleur-de-lys Cocks Plate XXI
Inverted cross

Y04

Cross
Y05 Y09