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Bells on Sunday: Coventry Cathedral

01/05/2016

Coventry Cathedral

BBC Radio 4 - Bells on Sunday, Coventry Cathedral

This week's Bells on Sunday comes from Coventry Cathedral, to mark the 50th anniversary of its consecration. The medieval Cathedral was destroyed during the evening of 14th November 1940 by the Luftwaffe. The next morning, all that remained was a shell full of rubble, and the tower, containing the cathedral's bells. The new cathedral, built beside the ruins, was consecrated in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen on the 25th May 1962 and there were celebrations on Friday marking that anniversary, attended by the Princess Royal. The tower of the cathedral has a ring of 12 bells, with the Tenor weighing just over 33 and a half hundredweight, and tuned to C sharp. This week we hear the bells of Coventry Cathedral, undamaged during that historic air raid and the rest of the War, ringing, 'Stedman Cinques'.

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