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St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow

Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow.

Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow. On Saturday 30th October, many cathedral bells will be ringing out across their cities on the eve of the United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow. And so it鈥檚 from St Mary鈥檚 Scottish Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow that the bells come this morning. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and raised to Cathedral status in 1908, the cathedral has a ring of ten bells, cast by John Taylor. The tenor sounds C sharp and weighs thirty two hundredweight. We hear them ringing Yorkshire Surprise Royal, recorded inside the ringing chamber.

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  • Sun 31 Oct 2021 05:43
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