The 1971 ring of ten bells was dedicated at a service in the Abbey attended by Queen Elizabeth II on 9th November that year. The tenor bell has a diameter of 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm), a weight of 30 ...

The bells that provide a soundtrack to life-pealing in celebration, sounding a warning or tolling with muffled tongues in time of grief are more than mere instruments. Each has its own voice and name, ...

A separate bell tower - or campanile - was erected on the north side ... successfully avoiding the many large monuments at ground level beneath the tower, and the splendid new ring of ten (tenor ...

The minster's bells are the fourth heaviest ring of 12 in the world, with the largest bell, the tenor, weighing three tonnes. Ms Ainsworth said the bell-ringer in charge of the tenor on Monday ...

They are the heaviest ringing peal of ten in the world. The tenor bell weighs just over fifty six and a quarter hundredweight and is tuned to the note of C. It is the fifth heaviest ringing bell ...

The Abbey's tenor bell weighs 33 cwt ... In 1897 it was restored so that the city could ring a peal for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It can be heard across the city as it strikes the hour ...