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Bells on Sunday: Wells Cathedral, Somerset

03/09/2017

Wells Cathedral, Somerset

BBC Radio 4 - Bells on Sunday, Wells Cathedral, Somerset

Church bells from parish churches and cathedrals around the country.

This week's Bells on Sunday comes from The Cathedral Church of St. Andrew, Wells in Somerset. The South West tower contains a peal of ten bells from three different founders, Mears & Stainbank, Abel Rudhall and the 9th and tenor bells are by John Taylor cast in 1877. With the tenor weighing just over fifty six hundredweight, they are the heaviest ringing peal of ten in the world. We hear them now ringing Stedman Caters.

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