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Radio 4,16 Feb 2020,2 mins

St John’s Church in Sidcup in the county of Kent.

Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday comes from St John’s Church in Sidcup in the county of Kent. The tower contains a peal of six bells, the four lightest were cast by Thomas Mears the Second in 1843. The fifth and tenor were cast by John Warner and Sons in 1901. All six bells were retuned by Mears and Stainbank in 1950. The tenor weighs eight and three quarter hundredweight and is tuned to the key of A. We hear part of a full peal of Single Oxford Bob Minor.

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