Campanario Concatedral de Ferrol - Ferrol, A Coruña, Galicia, España
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Ariberna
N 43° 28.922 W 008° 14.096
29T E 561869 N 4814630
Tower bell in Concatedral
Waymark Code: WM14QN2
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 08/11/2021
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The tower bell is simetric to the other, but the bells are in one.
"Current conservation: The complex is in an advanced process of abandonment, with the risk of the two largest bells falling in the medium term. There is an imminent danger of breaking the two larger bells, as the clappers are disproportionate and hit too low.
Protection: The Cathedral lacks specific protection as a monument. The bells The cathedral has two distinct sets of bells. In the tower of the bells there are three, which probably could have turned in their origins, but in the last forty or fifty years they have only been touched with the clapper for great occasions. The smaller bell has a crankshaft for turning, an iron yoke and was cast by Manuel QUINTANA in 1959, as well as the medium bell, cast by himself in 1961, although preserving the original and previous wooden yoke. The main bell is the work of Juan María de la Sota de Lugo, cast in 1898 and also with an imposing wooden yoke and probably earlier.
Traditional rings: Probably the small bell was used for the daily masses, and the other two, touched from below, for the daily signals, the death tolls and the high masses, climbing the tower only to ring, loudly, for the processions and other major festivals.
Current ringss: The bells are played manually, from the bell room itself, for the two or three most important annual processions, as well as for extraordinary death tolls, such as the death of the last pope."
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