Sentence examples for bell casting from inspiring English sources

Though they were inexperienced in bell casting, Pass had headed the Mount Holly Iron Foundry in neighboring New Jersey and came from Malta, which had a tradition of bell casting.

Important finds included: a Norman doorway; a finely carved arcade; a floor of mosaic tiles, the largest floor area of this type to be found in any modern excavation; the remains of the kiln where the tiles were fired; a bell casting pit used for casting the bell; and a large medieval statue of Saint Christopher.

A bronze bell cast in 1591 tolls the hours.

At its foot is the enormous Tsar Bell, cast in 1733 35 but never rung.

At a traditional ceremony in Mount Vernon, N.Y., village elders read aloud the Declaration of Independence and rang an iron bell cast in 1758, once for each of the 13 colonies.

Its replacement, a semi-Gothic spire housing an expensive eight-sided clock and a bell cast in Istanbul, was destroyed during the genocide — struck down on May 28 , 1915 by cannon fire, because the spire surpassed the height of the city's minarets.

St . Marys has a bell cast by W. & J. Taylor in 1840, presumably at their then Oxford foundry, and three more including the treble and tenor bells cast by Taylors'sLoughasrough foundry in 1928.

A bell cast in around 1450 by John Sturdy is still used as a Sanctus bell and is regarded as having national historic significance.

This clock, together with the great bell cast in 1405, gave the Zytglogge its name, which in Bernese German means "time bell".

Then it quickly silenced its own alarm bells, casting spills as a "very low probability event" and noting that companies had "speculated" that deep-water blowouts might cap themselves (because of loose sediment on the ocean floor).

Bells, cast from a bronze alloy, may look indestructible, but they do not last forever.