Washington - At one end of the 20-foot rope is Tessa Lightfoot, a 13-year-old American teenager topping the scales at 90 pounds. At the other, directly above her head, is a British-made bronze bell ...
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!
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!
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 ...
Writing a column about bell-ringing is, in a way, a hopeless endeavor. The experience is like taking a photocopy of a photocopy — the product takes you further from the art at hand, the lived ...
A cheerful ringing is pouring out from Stade de France, the Olympic track and field stadium, but it’s not applause from the stands. It’s from a bell. After winning their track and field events, gold ...
When I was a first-year, I used to think that the chiming bells I’d occasionally hear on campus were caused by the wind. It wasn’t until I spotted poster in the campus center inviting people to a ...
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Church handed funding to replace bellringing ropes
A Worcestershire church has been given funding to replace its bellringing ropes. The ringing of the bells at St Mary's Church in Kempsey dates back to the 17th Century but the special ropes to help ...
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