This is was rung back in early June to wish my father a speedy recovery. Excuse my shaky ringing, I wasn't in the best of mindsets at the time. BellBoard entry here: bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.ph...
Canterbury Cathedral is the UK's oldest cathedral, having been founded in 597 by St Augustine, who also founded the nearby St Martin's Church (the first to be founded, even though a Christian place of worship there had existed for several centuries before Augustine came alone) and St Augustine's Abbey. St Augustine also founded the nearby King's School, also in 597, making it the oldest school in the world that has operated continuously since. What we see at the cathedral today is an amalgamation of many different styles, ranging from 11th century all the way to 19th century. The most conspicuous and fantastic parts of the cathedrral, in my opinion at least, are the crossing tower, transepts, nave and Western towers.
The North West tower (the Arundel Tower, actually a 19th century copy of the south tower replacing an unstable Norman tower which was the largest section of Bishop Lanfranc's 11th century Romanesque cathedral) which contains the cathedral's clock bells and bourdon bell, Great Dunstan. This bell was cast in 1762 by Lester and Pack of London, and weighs 62-2-9cwt (3,179kg) and rings out the note of B. However, the South West tower (St George's Tower, or the Oxford Tower) contains the cathedral's ring of twelve bells. The tenor weighs 34-3-4cwt and rings out the note of C#. The whole ring was recast in 1981 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and rehung that year lower in the tower. Enjoy the video!