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Bow Bells

St Mary-le-Bow
St Mary-Le-Bow 01.jpg
Exterior of St Mary-le-Bow
Country United Kingdom
Denomination Church of England
Website www.stmarylebow.co.uk
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade I
Designated 4 January 1950
Architect(s) Sir Christopher Wren
Style Baroque
Administration
Parish St Mary Le Bow Cheapside
Diocese Diocese of London
Clergy
Vicar(s) Rev. George Raymond Bush

St Mary-le-Bow /sənt ˈmɛəri lə ˈb/ is an historic church rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 by Sir Christopher Wren in the City of London on the main east–west thoroughfare, Cheapside. According to tradition a true Cockney must be born within earshot of the sound of Bow Bells (which refers to this church's bells rather than St Mary and Holy Trinity, Bow Road, in Bow, an outlying village until the 19th century).

The sound of the bells of St Mary's is credited with having persuaded Dick Whittington to turn back from Highgate and remain in London to become Lord Mayor.

Details of the bells:

Weights in hundredweights, quarters and pounds.

The previous "great bell at Bow", the tenor bell of the peal installed in 1762 and destroyed in an air raid of 1941, weighed 58 hundredweight, with six tons of ironwork braces cut into the inside walls of the tower as reinforcement. Earlier still, the first great bell was a byword for having a sonorous tone as, in 1588, pamphleteer Robert Greene sarcastically likens the verse of Christopher Marlowe to the bell's "mouth-filling" resonance.


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