Church Bells

The words

1. Belfry

   The bell chamber; ‘Belfry Reform’ of the ringers.

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2. Bell Wheel

   The wheel that lets a bell swing full circle.

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3. Big Ben

   The great bell cast at Whitechapel in 1858.

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4. Call Changes

   Changes called out one by one by the conductor.

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5. Campanalogia

   Stedman’s own ringing book of 1677.

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6. Carillon

   The tuned bells played in the Netherlands.

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7. Change Ringing

   Ringing bells in a continually changing order.

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8. College Youths

   The London ringing society founded in 1637.

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9. Mancroft

   St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, where the first true peal was rung.

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10. Peals

    Long performances of change ringing.

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11. Rounds

    Ringing the bells in turn down the scale.

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12. Stedman

    Fabian Stedman, the ‘father of change ringing’.

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13. Tennyson

    Poet of ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’.

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14. Tintinnalogia

    The first book on ringing, 1668.

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15. Whitechapel

    The London bell foundry that closed in 2017.

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