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Bells on Sunday: Sheffield Cathedral

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Bells on Sunday comes from Sheffield Cathedral

Bells on Sunday comes from  Sheffield Cathedral

Currently there is no ringing taking place across UK towers, a situation not encountered since the Second World War. This week’s recording comes from Sheffield Cathedral, which has a thirty four hundredweight ring of twelve in C sharp, widely regarded as one of the finest products of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, in the long history of casting on that site and first rung on June 13th, 1970. The Cathedral was to be the location for the 2020 National Twelve Bell Striking Contest, due to be held on June 20th but now cancelled due to the Covid-19 epidemic. The bells are heard ringing Cambridge Surprise Maximus which was to have been the competition piece and this recording was made during the last practice held on the bells before the nationwide shutdown.

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