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The Whitechapel Bell Foundry: Fieldgate Street
Very sad news 14th May 2021 The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is to become a boutique hotel. thecritic.co.uk/the-final-toll/
Grade II* listed building. The foundry closed on 12 June 2017, after nearly 450 years of bell-making and 250 years at its Whitechapel site with the final bell cast given to the Museum of London along with other artefacts used in the manufacturing process, Many people are trying to save this wonderful building from becoming a "Boutique Hotel" www.savebritainsheritage.org/campaigns/recent/605/Whitech... This area has become so smart that shops that have been there for years are closing and being taken over by huge companies. It's so sad to watch this happening.
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a complex established in the mid 18th century, with alterations of the 19 and 20th centuries, is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: a distinctive, cohesive complex of domestic and industrial buildings spanning nearly 300 years of occupation including the dignified residence of the foundry owner at nos 32-34 Whitechapel Road, no 2 Fieldgate Street and the industrial ranges to the rear; * Historic interest: for the national cultural and industrial significance as the mid 18th century site of a specialised industry known to have been located elsewhere in Whitechapel since the medieval period, where well-known bells including Big Ben and the Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, were cast; * Degree of survival: nos 32 and 34 Whitechapel Road have a high level of exterior and interior intactness including the early-19th shop at no 34; * Interiors: distinctive for the mid-18th century plan-form, and the mid-18th century and early-19th century shop fittings, wall panelling, chimney pieces, stairs, ironmongery and joinery in nos 32 and 34 Whitechapel Road, industrial workshops containing specialist bell-founding equipment, and the timber crane on the Plumbers Row frontage; * Rarity: one of only two remaining bell foundries in England, the other being Taylor’s of Loughborough, also listed at Grade II*.
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry: Fieldgate Street
Very sad news 14th May 2021 The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is to become a boutique hotel. thecritic.co.uk/the-final-toll/
Grade II* listed building. The foundry closed on 12 June 2017, after nearly 450 years of bell-making and 250 years at its Whitechapel site with the final bell cast given to the Museum of London along with other artefacts used in the manufacturing process, Many people are trying to save this wonderful building from becoming a "Boutique Hotel" www.savebritainsheritage.org/campaigns/recent/605/Whitech... This area has become so smart that shops that have been there for years are closing and being taken over by huge companies. It's so sad to watch this happening.
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a complex established in the mid 18th century, with alterations of the 19 and 20th centuries, is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: a distinctive, cohesive complex of domestic and industrial buildings spanning nearly 300 years of occupation including the dignified residence of the foundry owner at nos 32-34 Whitechapel Road, no 2 Fieldgate Street and the industrial ranges to the rear; * Historic interest: for the national cultural and industrial significance as the mid 18th century site of a specialised industry known to have been located elsewhere in Whitechapel since the medieval period, where well-known bells including Big Ben and the Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, were cast; * Degree of survival: nos 32 and 34 Whitechapel Road have a high level of exterior and interior intactness including the early-19th shop at no 34; * Interiors: distinctive for the mid-18th century plan-form, and the mid-18th century and early-19th century shop fittings, wall panelling, chimney pieces, stairs, ironmongery and joinery in nos 32 and 34 Whitechapel Road, industrial workshops containing specialist bell-founding equipment, and the timber crane on the Plumbers Row frontage; * Rarity: one of only two remaining bell foundries in England, the other being Taylor’s of Loughborough, also listed at Grade II*.