GREAT PAUL.
“Great Paul,” hung in the South or L'lock Tower of St. Paul’s Cathedral in 188’2, is tile largest hell in England. It weighs nearly 17 tons, and is over nine and a-halt lect in diameter, it is rung for live minutes daily at one o’clock, and is also used a a service hell on Sundays. On all other occasions it remains silent, the clock chimes being sounded on three older bells, the biggest of which —that on which the hours are sounded—weighs five and a-quarter tons. It is this hell which is tolled on the death of the Sovereign. St. Paid’s famous peal of 12 hells, first runs on November 1. 1878, is rung in the North Tower. Their weight totals 15 lons and a-half. of which the tenor hell weigh 3 tons 2 cwt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1929, Page 7
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