The bells of Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral

The electronic swinging of the four bells of the RC cathedral before the Sunday 11am Mass. Was fortunate to be passing by after ringing at Rain Hill just at the right point to catch these!.

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[Read1526]

who were these cast by? they're well in tune!

[irkibby]

@Read1526 Whitechapel. He heaviest one was made deliberately heavier than the tenor at the Anglican cathedral....

[StevenBlakemore1994]

I am a change ringer and this sounds a mess to me. the bells ok but the order they are striking a big mess. ARR!

[irkibby]

I agree to an extent. It sounds very impressive, what with the heaviest weighing 91cwt

[clochebell]

@StevenBlakemore1994 This is not change ringing. This is the traditional way of ringing bells borrowed from the Continent and North America using counterbalanced clappers and counterbalanced yokes. The sound of the tenor bell is marvellous. You could not have any other way of ringing these bells in such an open bell tower.

[irkibby]

@clochebell Very true.

[melina001a]

To be honest I always thought it was a shame lyutens never got to finish his cathedral it would have been something grand and huge. It's nice cathedral they built sure but it does from an archetural point of view have some problems

[MrUNIXman]

nice sounding bells, better if they were rang to a tune or something. Wonder what happend if the clapper snapped from these bells one point.

[ajrawlinson1]

the 91cwt one would make a decent tenor :P lol

[MrBerni2010]

Very interesting cathedral building and beautyful sound of bells.

[topshed34a]

Well this was my Dads job putting these in, I do remember the electric motors were alway burning out due it the small wheels on them. The tenor is a nice sounding whitechapel bell but it would sound much better if it was rung without the Continental "Clatter" ruining it. Stil we all know it took the English to develop changing ring to the fine organised art that it truly is.

[captaincook71]

@StevenBlakemore1994 that's just a "normal" ringing... the melody come from this "mess" as in every tower bells of the world without a big part of anglican churches... the only problem is that the bells are too slow here :)