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The Parish Church of Saint Buryan in Cornwall

Bells on Sunday, comes from the Parish Church of Saint Buryan in Cornwall.

Bells on Sunday, comes from the Parish Church of Saint Buryan in Cornwall. Local legend suggests both the village and church is named after the daughter of an Irish King who brought Christianity to Cornwall in the 6th century. The ninety-two-foot tower was completed in 1501 and today it houses the heaviest peal of six bells in the world. The Tenor bell weighs thirty seven and a half hundredweight and is in the note of C flat We hear them ringing Cambridge Minor.

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