Bell Ringing practice at Chichester Cathedral

Many thanks to the ringers of the cathedral for letting me attend a practice night, and thanks to my uncle and mrs. Margret Oram for coming to the final arrangement.

The bells are not hung in the cathedral, but in a detatched bell tower on the cathedral grounds. The ringers practiced double Norwich as I left the tower. Some of the bells wew a bit to big for me, but I'll stick to little ones in futre.

Enjoy the video as much as I did making it.

For those who are interested, the cathedral has eight bells, and they are hung in a separate tower and not in the cathedral.

Rumours say the bells were hung in the central tower, but when it collapsed in 1861, they were placed in the south-west tower, then a separate detatched bell tower was added to accomadate them.

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• Chichester
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• Sussex
• Wednesday
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• Double
• Norwi

[TheBabySpinosaurus]

WTF Yellow Sallies?

[1BODGER95]

That was my actual first reaction!!

You get used to them though ;)

[darrowby1972]

My gawd! they sound horrendous!

[1BODGER95]

Maybe...

Imagine how beautiful they would be if they were retuned.

[LottieBTS]

PLEASE! - someone get these dreadful bells retuned.

[1BODGER95]

I think they're too old to be recast.

[KDowner94]

Ive rung here!! They were like ringing buckets

[simonbellringer]

Yuck! They sound HORRENDOUS!!

AND LONG DRAUGHT TO BOOT!! IM NOT COMING HERE IN A HURRY!!

What were they like to ring anyway?

[1BODGER95]

Really?!?!

That's not what I've been told.