Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday: St Dunstan, Stepney in Greater London

St Dunstan, Stepney in Greater London

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Bells on Sunday comes from St Dunstan, Stepney in Greater London.

Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Dunstan, Stepney in Greater London.  St Dunstan's tower contains a ring of ten bells.  Three were recast by the Whitechapel Foundry in 1952 and the remaining seven bells were cast by Thomas Mears in 1806. The Tenor weighs twenty eight and three quarter hundred weight and is tuned to D flat. The bells are famous for being part of the "Oranges and Lemons" nursery rhyme which contains the words, “Pray, when will that be says the bells of Stepney”.   We hear the eight largest bells ringing Grandsire Triples

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