Villagers furious after church banned from ringing 'nuisance' 177-year-old bells following complaints from neighbour. By JAMES TOZER. Published: 07:07 EDT, 11 June 2025 | Updated: 07:07 EDT, 11 ...

IDEAS My new hobby is ringing huge church bells. It’s enchanting — and humbling. At some point I got tired of only doing things I’m good at.

Church bells are synonymous with Christmas, but could the sound of them ringing soon be consigned to history? This is the concern outlined in a report by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches.Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in ...

Church bells were ringing in Lower Manhattan. Change ringing requires strength and focus. Participants each tug a rope attached to a bell weighing between 500 and 2,700 pounds, working together to ...

Ringing the Old Year Out and the New Year In. Share full article. Dec. 29, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 29, 1865, Page 8 Buy ...

It took its current position on Boylston Street in 1985. Vogan began ringing the bell on race day sometime in the 1990s. “We talked about ringing the bells for the marathon winners since the finish ...

For most, church bells are just a quaint bit of automated background noise. But Pallàs and his 18 students at the Vall d’en Bas School of Bell Ringers are trying to change that by resuscitating ...

JOANETES, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang ...

Joan Carles Osuna, a student of the Vall d'en Bas School of Bell Ringers, performs playing all four bronze bells at the church bell tower of the12th-century Sant Romà church, at the village of ...

For most, church bells are just a quaint bit of automated background noise. But Pallàs and his 18 students at the Vall d’en Bas School of Bell Ringers are trying to change that by resuscitating ...