- Title
- A short history of the Cathedral bells
- Creator
- Lewis, Colin A
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6170
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012360
- Description
- [From Introduction] The first suggestion that there should be a peal of bells in the town appears to have been made around August 1860 when Prince Altred laid the foundation stone of the Alfred Tower. Designed by Joseph Flashman, a local architect, it was to be "in the early English style of architecture, 150 n high'' and to contain a public clock and a peal of bells. The following year, the Vestry asked I3p Cotterill to contact George Gilbert Scott, a highly regarded architect in England, "for the remodelling of the Cathedral in keeping with the Alfred Tower."
- 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.
- Format
- 3 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lewis, C.A. (2001) A short history of the Cathedral bells. The Spire : newsletter of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown (February 2001). pp. 5-9. (Unpublished)
- Rights
- Lewis, Colin A
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