The Cathedral Bells Today
Bell
1
2
3
4
4b
5
6
6b
7
8
8b
9
10
11
12
Bordon
Founder and date
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1928
John Taylor & Co, 1868
Diameter
29”
30 1/2”
31”
32 1/2”
33 1/2”
35”
36 1/2”
38”
39 1/2”
43 1/2”
45”
48”
51”
57”
64”
76 3/8”
Note
F sharp
E
D sharp
C sharp
C
B
A sharp
A
G sharp
F sharp
F
E
D sharp
C sharp
B
A
Cwt.
6
7
7
7
8
8
10
10
12
14
16
20
25
34
48
82
Qrs.
3
1
2
3
0
2
0
2
0
3
1
0
2
3
0
3
Lbs.
8
16
20
25
15
19
6
24
1
26
16
6
10
4
2
24
The central tower contains a ring of twelve bells in the key of B natural with three semitone bells (also hung for ringing) and a bourdon bell (hung dead) for the clock.
The details of the bells given here are the correct ones. The weights given by Walters in The Church Bells of Worcestershire (1932) and for many years displayed in the belfry were adjusted to appear more in keeping with the sizes of the original bells.
The main inscriptions and the dedications on the waist are copied from the old bells of 1869 and 1875. They are in the elaborate gothic capitals copied from the set of three mediaeval bells at South Somercotes, in Lincolnshire, one of which is dated 1423. The capitals are decorated with foliage, flowers and human heads and grotesque figures. The added inscriptions of 1928 are in modern Roman lettering in various different sizes. The ornamental borders on the bells are repeated from their predecessors.
The Bourdon or Hour bell was cast at Loughborough on 28 August 1868.