Bells in the Province of Southern Africa

Lewis, Colin A

Title: Bells in the Province of Southern Africa
Creator: Lewis, Colin A
Date Issued: 2006
Date: 2006
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6168
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012356
Identifier: http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
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.
Description: The (Anglican) Church of the Province of Southern Africa encompasses South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and other ·South Atlantic groups and extends into Mozambique and Angola. This is the area, with the exception of Angola and Namibia, covered by this exploratory article. Further research will, no doubt, add much information on the bells of the Province. The first bells known to have existed in the area now covered by the Province were reported from St. Helena in 1588, when captain Thomas Cavendish wrote that on the land there was "a church ... [and] a frame ... whereon hang two bells." At that time St. Helena was used by Portuguese seamen and the bells were probably imported from Portugal. They apparently hung outside a church .in the valley in which Jamestown is now sited. No trace of them now exists (Lewis, 2004a).
Format: 2 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: The Ringing World
Language: English
Relation: Lewis, C.A. (2006) Bells in the Province of Southern Africa. The Ringing World (No. 4986, 17th November). pp. 1099-1100. Available: http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
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