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The Abbey Church in Selby, North Yorkshire

Bells on Sunday, comes from the Abbey Church in Selby, North Yorkshire.

Bells on Sunday, comes from the Abbey Church in Selby, North Yorkshire. The earliest record of bells at the abbey was of four bells in 1619. In the restoration following a disastrous fire in 1906 that gutted the entire Abbey a new ring of ten bells by John Taylor of Loughborough were installed. These bells were augmented to a ring of twelve for the millennium. The Tenor bell weighs twenty five and a half hundredweight and is tuned to the note of D. We hear them ringing Cambridge Surprise Maximus

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Hear the Bells of Notre Dame

Hear the Bells of Notre Dame

Though silenced for now, the great bell 'Emmanuel' will lead the majestic chorus again...