Please allow me, kind reader, to spin you a story of a bell's journey from a dusty garage to a station of glory. I witnessed ...

Girsby Bridge, also known as the Bridle Bridge, is a cast iron trestle construction with wrought iron girders, built by Theophania Blackett in 1870. A stone tablet on the Durham side of the bridge ...

The carillon has two keyboards, like an organ, and the 48 bells overhead are controlled by wooden hand ... the bigger the clapper.” Made of cast iron, the biggest clapper weighs 50 pounds, requiring ...

The bell tower contains four bells, which were donated by Spain. Inside, three large sculptures of angels, weighing up to 660 pounds, are suspended by steel cables over worshippers. The church has ...

Rev Ruth Clay said the continued lack of bells at St Wendreda's was proving a problem The vicar of a Cambridgeshire church that has had to close its bell tower due to health and safety concerns ...

The bells at St Wendreda’s Church in March, Cambridgeshire, have been silent since January 2023 when damage to its 140ft (43m) tall spire was discovered. The Reverend Ruth Clay said she became ...

For centuries, the sound of church bells has called the faithful to prayer, not just before Mass but during its holiest moments. Beginning in the late 12th century, many churches rang their tower ...

Bells on Sunday comes from the parish church of Saints Peter and Paul in ... The Tenor bell weighs seven and three quarter hundredweight. It was cast in 1490 by Richard Bayser of Norwich and ...

“So what is the story of our parish bells? As church bells go, ours are old, and they are listed as “worthy of preservation”. “The four oldest bells were cast in 1698 by Exeter bellfounders Pennington ...