Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire
Bells on Sunday comes from Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire
Bells on Sunday comes from Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire which is unusual in having two churches in one churchyard. The bells hang in the octagonal tower of the redundant church of St Cyriac and St Julitta but ring for services in the parish church of St Mary less than thirty metres away.
There are six bells cast by John Briant of Hertford in 1791 using the metal of earlier bells from both churches. The Tenor bell weighs ten hundredweight and is tuned to G. The first record of the bells ringing for a royal occasion was in 1800 when they marked the anniversary of the accession of King George III. We hear them now ringing Stedman Doubles to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of HM Elizabeth II.