Rather amazingly, since the last symposium of the Provenance Projected Project in Oslo, Uwe Fleckner and Mari Lending have compiled an immense 272-page Dictionary based round all the key terms involved in the thinking round the project: from Acquisition to Weathering. Yesterday, we heard about Authorship, Material, Renovation, Reconstruction and Postproduction. They will be short essays on architectural themes and issues, due to be published by Hatje Cantz in late October. An astonishing feat of systematic co-ordination, including a 23-page bibliography. I have written the tale of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry under the rubric of Craft.
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Interesting. I think I’ve commented before on the bells of St Andrews Church on George Street, Edinburgh. Here is a para from my book, 10 Scotland Street. Grace was the sister of the purser and naval agent – latterly bookseller – David Kedie Whytt who bought my house from the builders in 1824.
The steeple rises a precipitous fifty-one metres. In it hangs a unique peal of eight bells cast in 1788 by William and Thomas Mears at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. The bells were refurbished relatively recently, by the Foundry which commenced business in 1570 in the reign of the first Elizabeth. For more than 200 years it was housed in a glorious piece of early industrial architecture, now sitting bang in the path of the eastward crawl of the City of London and its current rocketing prices. Despite valiant efforts to save the Foundry, after 450 years of trading it was closed in 2017 and stands derelict. Grace and John were married to the peal of what is now the oldest complete ring in Scotland.
What I did not know at the time I wrote that was that the English peal of bells caused a rumpus and an uproar in the town, as apparently Scotland had its own campanology – a distinct change ringing. I feel a rabbit-hole beckoning.
Glad you mention the closure in your book. Charles