Great Paul, The heaveist Bourdon bell in the UK at almost 16 3/4 tons 

Look at the enormous and monumental clapper

2:18 The clapper looks like it's moving in slow motion, but its in real time

@@immortalgamingyt6182 Thats because its a counterweighted clapper

Kamaal Wellens Go look up the Riverside church bourdon. That bell would not even Be able to swing in St Paul's bell tower

That 20-US-ton bourdon indeed cannot ring in the South Western tower. But Great Paul can ring in Riverside Church NYC

The bigger the clapper the slower it moves.

@@Blurain727 an illusion, if the clapper was smaller, it will look like it is moving pretty damn quick. at least that was what i know. mass.

U ain’t wrong

@bellfan1 it rang at the start of the festival of bells by rope in 2021

@@RingerLuca651 Yeah this was what I referred to lol

Great PAUL is London St PAUL Cathedral London Westminster-Chime

Matthew Lovell I saw it in 1963 I was 10 It was rung manually by two ringers. The clapper was different , ir was heart shaped. My dad was a bell hanger for Whitechapel plus a member of the ASCY like me so I got to see a lot. I can remember going to Bow in 1961 as hw was hanging the new peal

well @@Steven_Rowe, i was reading on the internet about how they might remotorize Great Paul, but i think it would be best to have manual swinging like you saw back in 1963 as backup.

@@FranzFerdinandVIII it actually rang higher manually. It also had a heart shaped clapper It's very difficult to either photograph or video as it is in a very crapped location higher than the clock. I must be the only person to video it I think. I hope it does ring again even though it's not the sweetest sound bell unlike Great Peter in York minster.

@@Steven_Rowe you didn't capture It ringing during the Platinum jubilee service at St Paul's

the bell has 2 ways of ringing, it can be done electrically or it can be done by hand...

Terry Robinson today sadly churches are in decline and with it goes English change ringing to some degree, although change ringing goes back to the early 1600s It is indeed English culture and I feel today the British government wants to destroy that culture to appease and please everyone else. When church bells are silent on a Sunday then England is no more in in opinion.

Now that is really interesting. I saw it rung manually in 1963, I was 9nly 9 at the time.My dad was in the College youths was a bell hanger for Whitechapel who hung bow in 1961 along with others. I remember two pits with a finger each side. The clapper was different, it had a heart shaped ball, also it swung higher although you have to be careful as the lip of the bell would not the roof where great Tom and the two quarter Jack's are hung.

Larry Lester Larry Many thanks for you kind worlds. i seem to ve the only person to have videod it. Pity about the sound, my old VHS camera didnt have any mic control. it is very hard to video as the vell is tucked up above the clock and is to say the least cramped. This is the second time I hace seen it. The first was in 1963 and it was rung manually then. The bell rung much higher then, almost frame height. Sac to thing it doesnt ring. Iwould love to see the Olympic vell hung as a swinging bourdan bell.

What caused Great paul to cease ringing was the failure of the wheel motor which simply moved the wheel in both directions & due to the weight of the bell was under great strain & over the years countless motors have burnt out & been replaced then only a year or so later they fail again simply because they are not up to the job as the whole notion of using a motor driven wheel is now outdated.Now there is a solution in sight that could see Great Paul ringing again as BellTron in the USA have invented a new revolutionary chiming motor based on magnetic levitation in the form of an arc shaped linear motor that sits adjacent to the wheel which actuates a sensor on the wheel making it move. This uses only a fraction of the power of conventional motors & should be installed to get Great Paul Ringing again.

@@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH wow! i never thought of that! Speaking of which, all the bells in both towers are being cleaned, even the bourdon!

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not to sue how big the motor is. Apparently it doesnt anymore. of course ringinhva bell like this is not as bad as you may think as the bell is counterbalanced. Great Peter of York is 10 tons and is rung manually by only one person 1n 1963 Isawa Great Paul rung and it was manually back then.

Okay. But I'm saying the mechanism is quite powerful to swing it to full as fast as it did.

Edaan Friedman Yes would be a decent size.but of course it runs on the wheel so that means it doesn't need as much torque Also the bell naturally swings at its own speed

Yes I Know. Pretty cool still.

Edaan Friedman i find it odd that there isnt more videos of it It is hard to photograph or video it is really cramped . You climb a stairway just to view it and its hard to get above it. Rather like clinbing through roof trusses in a house

sadly it doesn't ring anymore as far as I know as the electric mechanism is broken. I used to be rung manually and I remember seeing it in 1963 wow that was 53 years ago. .it was never very loud from outside . it is in a very cramped location above the clock face in the south west tower. above this are antother three clock bells that tou can hear well. Two quarter bells and the hour bell

steven rowe thank's for the info

Your English is good , yes I don't understand why it's the only footage. I have had nearly 200k views It is a very difficult bell to photograph or video due to it being above the clock face in the tower and it's very cramped indeed. The huge wooden frame doesn't help either.

There ting tang you refer to are the quarter bells that chime each 15 minute with 4 ting tangs on the hour. The hour bell strikes, it is called Great Tom and even that weighs over 5 tons

It all depends on how counterbalanced the bell is. If the headstock is highly arched then some of the bells weight is on the otherwise of the bearing Centreline. You can do this with any bell. Also the clapper is counterbalanced . The clapper should not the leading edge of the bell, in other words the clapper hits the bell. With a lazy clapper the bell hits the clapper. Check out this video it shows the counterbalanced bell and clapper very well ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o8v5yYEy0UU.html

Evan Johnson and the River side bells were carmst by et and Johnson of Croyxon. Personally I don't like Notre Dame I prefer English changing ringing . But that is simple personal preference Would love go see Riverside bells..Also would love to see the London Olympic bell hung for ringing

steven rowe Yes me too

Personally I like English bourdons

Not much

Probably 100

118 or 119 db

Probably 129

120 - 130 dzb

Yes Great Paul is bigger. Firstly Big Ben is 13 tons but is only a clock bell, it is struck by an external hammer and doesn't swing. Great Peter of York is 10 tons, also used as a clock bell too but it does swing, It is the largest manually rung bell in the UK, and I think it sounds much better than Great Paul.

steven rowe I prefer Great Paul because it has such a deep tone.

+Ringer Jake im agreeing with u

Because the tower up in flames and the bell fell making it crack

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@@neoarzengueco8292 can you shut up

+Simon De Belleme this 135 year old bell is no longer rining my friend who lives in london & is used to the change ringing bells of the cathdrel saild the mecanizam wat rings t broke

If the folk at St. Pauls Cathedral decided to *manually* ring Great Paul then they will save a stload of money

Jesus Tapia great Tom is the hour bell

@@JesusTilapia you heard that dong? Thats great tom great paul was swinging but wasn't ringing yet since the clapper didn't reach the bell and plus Great paul sounds way different then Great tom and great tom rang because the hammer was turned on and the hammer hit Great Tom thats what made the noise.

Well AC/DC have a bell, it was cast by Taylors of Loughborough as was Great Paul

+smith23 Ah your a comedian I can see. What about the cracked ones like Big Ben.

+steven rowe Yeah a cracked bell definitely deserves to be there, just like our MPs

+smith23 lets face it is because it is cracked that it sounds so unique. I want to know what happened to the Olympic bell. They should hang it so it can be the UK uks biggest bell that actually rings

+steven rowe the Olympic been should be hung for full circle ringing. and have Jean Claude van damme and chuck Norris called in to ring it!

+steven rowe the Olympic been should be hung for full circle ringing. and have Jean Claude van damme and chuck Norris called in to ring it!

The North West tower is not a Carillon as the bells are hung for change ringing and they are 12 bells

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So do I , apparently it has been rung manually like it used to be rung. It does require two people to ring it and I have seen it rung manually in 1963.

How tall is the bell?

@@sebastiangrunewald9094 I guestimate around 2.4 metres perhaps more. On the video I did say it was roughly that. If you type in Great Paul bell on Google and go to images you will see early photos of it taken before it was installed and men are standing next to it. That will give you a good idea of its size. What I do know is the diameter of the bell at the bottom is 2.91 metres

Thanks for the info

He used to get in from the tower where the 12 are and walk over to the other tower but now you get in via a security entrance and walk along high above the nave of the Cathedral.

This I think sounds very similar to Great peter of York minster, York and I believe the other similar sounding bell was mount tabor glock.

The biggest bell in the world is actually the tsar bell with over 202 tons!

@@Hubertizcool14 it's not functional though

@@durrantmiller8810 I know it's still the biggest especially it cracked out an 11 ton chunk off

I’m going to try make some money to fix it so hopefully after July 2025