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Radio 4,08 Aug 2021,2 mins

All Saints Church in Maidstone, Kent

Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints Church in Maidstone, Kent. Overlooking the River Medway the 15th century church, with its tower standing over the south west porch, houses a peal of 10 bells with a tenor weighing 32 hundred weight. It's tuned to C sharp, and is the heaviest tenor bell in the county. In 1959 Taylor's Foundry of Loughborough recast the present ring of 10 from the metal of a similar ring cast by the Whitechapel Foundry of London in 1784. We hear them ringing Spliced Plain and Little Bob Royal.

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