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Radio 4,05 Dec 2021,2 mins

The Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday comes from the Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Originally the site of a Saxon Church and replaced by a Norman structure Its current late medieval appearance is the result of a Victorian restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The Cathedral has a ring of twelve bells cast by John Taylor of Loughborough. The heaviest, the tenor, weighs 35 and a quarter Hundredweight and is tuned to the note of C. We hear them ringing Cambridge Surprise Maximus.

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