page_title: Exeter Cathedral
section_title: Bells
hierarchical_section_title: Exeter Cathedral / Notable features / Bells
caption_attribution_description: English: South tower, Exeter Cathedral 252429 (12th century), together with crocketed buttresses (14th century) against the south wall of the nave, seen from the cathedral green.
context_page_description: Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The present building was complete by about 1400, and has several notable features, including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in England.
context_section_description: Both of the Cathedral's towers contain bells. The North Tower contains an 80-hundredweight (4.1-tonne) bourdon bell, called Peter. Peter used to swing but it is now only chimed. it also contains two clock bells to sound the quarter hours.
  The South Tower contains the second heaviest peal of 12 bells hung for change ringing in the world, with a tenor weighing 72 long cwt 2 qr 2 lb (8,122 lb or 3,684 kg). They are second only to Liverpool Cathedral in weight. There are also two semitone bells in addition to the peal of 12.
caption: The South Tower where the 12 bells hang
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