Excellent tour. Very informative. Winchester was my birthplace in 1942. Fascinating story of Mr Lampard and his bell ringing for 60 years. A revealing history of Royal and religious privilege over the centuries.
@ianspaintpot Жыл бұрын
this is the most informative tour i think i have seen for many many years. i would like to see one of the crypt and the places people dont normaly see but great this man knows his stuff like a talking book
@jamessherman45083 жыл бұрын
Great tour of the bell tower (and of Winchester from the roof!) with a great guide! Look forward to visiting and taking the tour in the future.
@debbie57153 жыл бұрын
A great tour - thanks for giving us around, Jeff
@markcooke729 Жыл бұрын
A Norman structure will support a stone vault - Gloucester Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, the chapel of St John in the White Tower of the Tower of London, Tewkesbury Abbey, Holy Cross church in Winchester are all Norman buildings supporting stone vaults!
@adamm26932 жыл бұрын
wonderful, thank yous! it's also worth noting 23:21, the bells in that tower were moved to Southampton [The Ascension, Bitterne Park] were they were recast into eight, and now form the world's lightest ring of 12 church bells !
@Sunflowers15913 жыл бұрын
I've done one of those tours. It's fascinating. You need to be fit though to get up all those stairs! I definitely couldn't do it now.
@rebanelson6072 жыл бұрын
So interesting - thank you!
@RingerPeter3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. I wonder who is setting fireworks off at 19:17 in the middle of the day?
@balmuis3 жыл бұрын
Liked it, reading a single thread. Just a pity that some parts through the narrow passages to the bell tower were so dark. But very informative still
@Steven_Rowe3 жыл бұрын
Not to sure he knows his stuff. Bells don't need recasting every 100 years There are plenty of change ringing bells that date back to the 1600s also St Bartholomew's Smithfield are actually pre reformation bells. The leather cup is not a muffler, they fit on cars, they are called muffles Nice Taylor bells at Winchhester Also one of the bells at Winchester was cast in 1621 See the dove guide for details dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?DoveID=WINCHESTE
@RingerPeter3 жыл бұрын
muffler and muffles are the same thing. I hear people say both nearly all the time when we put them on.
@sdgwebb2 жыл бұрын
@@RingerPeter I’ve never heard them called mufflers…..
@Xbox_plays808973 жыл бұрын
I dont think it takes that long for the bells to go out of tune???
@RingerPeter3 жыл бұрын
he said that the clapper hits the bell at 600mph. it doesn't go out of tune in 600 years.
@bencarey20952 жыл бұрын
Can quite confidently say the clapper does not hit the bell at 600 mph...
@simonridley66092 жыл бұрын
The bells do not go out of tune, that is utterly inaccurate. They are recast because they are tonally poor.