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Radio 4,21 Dec 2025,2 mins

The church of St John the Baptist in Mathon, Herefordshire

Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St John the Baptist in Mathon, Herefordshire. There are six bells all originally cast by the Abel Rudhall foundry of Gloucester in 1760. In 1950 the fifth bell was replaced, and all the bells retuned and rehung by the John Taylor Foundry of Loughborough. The tenor weighs seven and a half hundredweight and is tuned to the note of A flat. We hear them ringing St Simon’s Bob Doubles by a band of the Hereford Diocesan Guild of Bellringers.

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