Church
St George's Cathedral
Gothic sandstone cathedral with a working ring of ten bells rung by hand every Sunday.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to St George's Cathedral in Cape Town follows the Sunday morning ritual of change ringing, ten ringers pulling ropes to sound the cathedral's bells in patterns that never repeat. It traces the bells' history from an 1834 casting through their 1963 recast into a ring of ten, and the sandstone tower built to hold them, its foundation stone laid by a future king in 1901. Somewhere above that tower the largest bell, named Good Hope, weighs about thirteen hundred kilograms.
This audio guide was created using AI.