'The Mary Bell' because of its inscription 'Hail Mary full of grace . . . ', it is clearly pre-Reformation. Traditionally the bell is associated with Cambuskenneth Abbey, on the edge of the Forth. The likelihood is that, with the destruction of the Abbey, the Abbey bell found a new location in the tower of the Holy Rude. In the early 1970s, when the ring of bells in the tower was increased to six, this Mary Bell, having lost its tonal value, was replaced.
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