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The Foundery or Foundry was the first London foundry for casting brass cannon for the British Board of Ordnance (later the Royal Arsenal). The building complex subsequently housed the first Wesleyan Methodist chapel. ==Cannon foundry== Also known as the King's Foundery〔 (Archived copy )〕 or Bagley's Foundry (after its founder Matthew Bagley), it was built (c. 1684)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/bagley-s-foundry-the-foundery )〕 in Windmill Hill (today Tabernacle Street) in Moorfields on the northern side of the City of London. It supplied cannons for the nearby Honourable Artillery Company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://londonist.com/2015/10/london-s-forgotten-disasters-explosion-in-moorfields )〕 but was closed in 1716 after a steam explosion caused by dampness in a mould – the explosion killed Bagley and 16 others.〔〔 A new cannon foundry was subsequently opened (c. 1717) on the Board of Ordnance's Woolwich site, southeast of London.
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