Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday: St Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster London

St Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster London

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Bells on Sunday comes from St Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster London.

Bells on Sunday comes from St. Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster London. On a site reputedly founded in the 9th Century by the Danes the current building was completed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1682.  It has a ring of ten bells,  nine of which were cast by the Mears and Stainbank foundry in 1955 and the Tenor Bell by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1979. It weighs twenty one and a quarter hundredweight and is in the note of E.. We hear them ringing ‘London Surprise Royal’.

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