[Magdalen] Bells of Saint Michaels.

[Jay Weigel]

When we were there in 1996 those bells, plus a bunch of others, were all
going at full ding-dong as we walked to church on Sunday morning. We
attended church at St. Michael's while we were there, having been told it
was not to be missed.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> I noted today on the evening news that there was considerable but
> superficial coverage of church bell ringing for nine minutes today,
> one minute for each victim of the Charleston Massacre.
>
> They showed a couple of times an obvious set of classical English
> peal bells, and a brief skyline view of Charleston showing a number  of
> classical Colonial tall steeples.
>
> On googling change ringing in Charleston, there is reference to
> the bells at Saint Michael's, and accessing this shows a long and  very
> colorful history of bells in that tower.  The story must certainly  rival
> almost any similar story in Britain itself.
>
> I love change ringing, but I wonder how well the neighbors do with it
> since the bells were only re-rigged in 1993 for full peals.  I know  the
> National Cathedral had some trouble when they started up in 1976.
>
>
> http://www.stmichaelschurch.net/about-us/history/bells/
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> David Strang.
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