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The Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey, Essex

Bells on Sunday comes from The Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey, Essex.

Bells on Sunday comes from The Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey, Essex. There has been a church in Waltham since the early 7th century. In 1177, Henry ii re-founded Waltham Church as a Priory and then as an Abbey in penance for the murder of Thomas Beckett. The Abbey was subsequently dissolved during the reformation. The church tower houses a ring of twelve bells cast by John Taylor of Loughborough with a tenor weighing thirty seven and a quarter hundredweight and tuned to the note of C. We hear them ringing Stedman Cinques.

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