Winchester Cathedral Virtual Tower Tour

[@iancoombe9285]

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]

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

[@jamessherman4508]

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.

[@debbie5715]

A great tour - thanks for giving us around, Jeff

[@markcooke729]

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!

[@adamm2693]

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 !

[@Sunflowers1591]

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.

[@rebanelson607]

So interesting - thank you!

[@RingerPeter]

Brilliant video. I wonder who is setting fireworks off at 19:17 in the middle of the day?

[@balmuis]

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_Rowe]

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

[@RingerPeter]

muffler and muffles are the same thing. I hear people say both nearly all the time when we put them on.

[@sdgwebb]

@@RingerPeter I’ve never heard them called mufflers…..

[@Xbox_plays80897]

I dont think it takes that long for the bells to go out of tune???

[@RingerPeter]

he said that the clapper hits the bell at 600mph. it doesn't go out of tune in 600 years.

[@bencarey2095]

Can quite confidently say the clapper does not hit the bell at 600 mph...

[@simonridley6609]

The bells do not go out of tune, that is utterly inaccurate. They are recast because they are tonally poor.