- Title
- Dublin founders of ringing bells
- Creator
- Lewis, Colin A
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6174
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012366
- Identifier
- http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
- Description
- Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
- Description
- The refurbishment and rehanging in a new frame in 1989 of the eight bells of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, was an indirect compliment to the quality of Irish workmanship. The bells, with a tenor of 13½ cwt, were cast in Dublin by Murphy's Bell Foundry to the order of Bishop Goold. They arrived in Melbourne in 1853. The bells were intended for St Francis' Church in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, which had no tower! Eventually, in 1868, they were hung in the south tower of the cathedral. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there were at least four founders in Dublin who cast ringing bells: John Murphy, James Sheridan, Thomas Hodges and Matthew O'Byrne.
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- The Ringing World
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lewis, C.A. (2002) Dublin founders of ringing bells. The Ringing World (No. 4754, 7th June). pp. 565-567, 569. Available: http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
- Rights
- Lewis, Colin A
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