So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...

A Devon village has celebrated the restoration of its historic bells with a flower festival. The centuries-old bells at St Lawrence Church in Bigbury had been unsafe to ring for 20 years until they ...

Sitting in a chair with ropes looped around both feet and hands, 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 ...

The other day, in an old John Wayne western, I watched as the bad guys were holed up in a church belfry. But they were put on the run by ...

From “Jingle Bells” to the street-corner bell ringers of the Salvation Army, the sound of the Christmas season is bells. But bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life ...

The Salvation Army’s Bell Ringing will begin the day after Thanksgiving on Black Friday. When the stores are full of people, ...

A "ringing and singing" event is set to take place in five bell towers across Devon and Cornwall to mark a centenary of ringing. The Devon Association of Ringers, alongside music charity Wren Music, ...

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Bells reverberated across the Financial District on Saturday afternoon, producing thunderous clangs and glissandos. Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity ...

‘I’ve always wanted challenges’ … Walters at St Bartholomew’s church in Meltham, West Yorkshire.Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian One sunny August evening, Jean Walters was sitting in her ...

After more than 13 years of death, oppression, and destruction, the bells of Syrian churches are once again ringing with hope. It is a hope for the rebirth of Syria — a once-lost aspiration whose ...

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-clong!