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 ...

In a little room near the top of a tower, people stand in a circle. Each holds a rope wrapped with a few feet of soft carpet as a handle, and when someone shouts, everyone pulls. At first you hear ...

When the church bells of France or Italy ring out in the sparkling air. they are apt to sound joyously at random or to strike the lilting cadence of a set tune. But such lightheartedness seems foreign ...

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 ...

A Birmingham youngster is showing why bell ringing is far from a dying art - at just 8-years-old. George Bull pulls the bells at one of Birmingham's best known churches and his passion is causing a ...

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 ...

"I’m not musical at all. In fact, I got thrown out of the choir at the Advertising Agency I used to work at! So, discovering my love of bellringing has surprised me as much as anyone," says Sarah ...