Main content

Manchester Cathedral

Church bells from Manchester Cathedral.

This week's Bells on Sunday, comes from Manchester Cathedral. This grade one listed building was - during World War two - the most damaged English Cathedral after Coventry. The interior retains a magnificent set of choir stalls complete with misericords dating back to the early Sixteenth Century. The tower contains a peal of 10 bells cast by the Croydon Foundry of Gillett and Johnson. The tenor, cast in 1925, weighs 27 and three quarter hundredweight and is tuned to F. We hear them now ringing Bristol Surprise Royal.

Available now

2 minutes

Last on

Christmas Day 2017 00:45
±«Óãtv Radio 4

More episodes

Previous

St Eadburgha, Ebrington in Gloucestershire

Next

St Petroc, South Brent in Devon

See all episodes from Bells on Sunday

Broadcasts

  • Christmas Eve 2017 05:43
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4
  • Christmas Day 2017 00:45
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4

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...