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The Parish Magazine of November 1891 reports that:

"It is not generally known that there was a Bell Foundry at Hungerford in the seventeenth century, but that such was the case appears from the following entry in Lambourn's Churchwarden's Book under date AD 1628-9:

Paid for Thos Daunteney's charge at Hungerford when the bell was cast, 1s 6d.
Paid Wm Payne for going to Hungerford one night to arrest the bell-founder, 1s 6d.
Paid to the Bailiffe of Hungerford for his fee, 8d.
Paid for charges at Hungerford at the castinge of the bell, 4s 9d."

In July 1978 a new ring of eight bells, cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, was installed in the tower of St Lawrence Parish Church.

See also:
- Pamphlet produced at the Dedication of the new ring of eight bells, 16th July 1978