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The Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

Bells on Sunday comes from the Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

Bells on Sunday comes from the Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Originally the site of a Saxon Church and replaced by a Norman structure Its current late medieval appearance is the result of a Victorian restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The Cathedral has a ring of twelve bells cast by John Taylor of Loughborough. The heaviest, the tenor, weighs 35 and a quarter Hundredweight and is tuned to the note of C. We hear them ringing Cambridge Surprise Maximus.

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