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Bells on Sunday: St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide

06/03/2016

St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide

BBC Radio 4 - Bells on Sunday, St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide

Church bells from St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia.

Bells on Sunday, which this week comes from St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide, Australia. Founded in 1856, The Roman Catholic Cathedral lies in the heart of the city in Victoria Square. The church's bell tower was completed in 1966. The tower contains a peal of twelve bells from the Whitechapel Foundry. Seven were cast in 1881, three in 1995 and the tenor weighing twenty-eight and a half hundredweight in the key of D was cast in 1992. This week ringing 'Cambridge Surprise Maximus.'.

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