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 ...

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 some ...

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!

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, ...

Watervliet Mayor Charles Patricelli stands next to the Meneely bell from St. Brigid’s Church next to Broadway which links Watervliet, Menands, Colonie and Albany on Thursday, March 28, 2024 in ...

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!

All six bells have been been ringing once again at a Grade II listed church which was gutted by a fire in 2014. A blaze, blamed at the time by an electrical fault, engulfed St Peter's Church in the ...

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!

Most people, when a belfry is mentioned, think of Lon Chaney and the classic movie “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” The original movie came out in 1939, centuries after church bells were created, but ...

Downtown Durham residents woke up to the sound of church bells on June 1. But instead of a hymn, the melody “You can take me hot to go!” rang out from the century-old bell tower of Duke Memorial ...