A bell ringer had to be lowered from a dizzying 100 feet after injuring himself in the bell tower at Worcester Cathedral in the U.K. on Saturday night. Stunned worshippers watched on as Ian Bowman, 51 ...
Church bells speak again in Spain thanks to effort to recover the lost 'language' of ringing by hand
+++ON HOLD++++ 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 ...
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!
The oldest church bells in the United States hang inside the Old North Church's steeple in Boston. It's also where Revolutionary War patriots followed Paul Revere's famous instructions to hang one ...
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 ...
Querying an Annapolitan for the location of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary will likely produce a shrug. Ask again for St. Mary’s Church, the name by which it is ...
Shortly after 9:30 a.m., a handful of people young and old ascended a balcony at First Presbyterian Church and began taking turns grabbing a rope that extended upward into a steeple towering over ...
England's medieval tradition of church bell-ringing has seen a decline in membership in recent years, along with church attendance. Old-timers are trying to rope in new recruits. Photo: George ...
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Church bells speak again in Spain thanks to effort to recover the lost 'language' of ringing by hand
JOANETES, Spain (AP) — 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 speak again in Spain thanks to effort to recover the lost ‘language' of ringing by hand
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! Clang-clong!
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