This is the concern outlined in a report by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, which outlines ongoing recruitment issues. With less people attending church, and groups such as choirs and ...

At 7pm local time on Thursday 15 June, bells rang out in support of Music Day at multiple locations across the country and worldwide, from cathedrals to small parish churches. Eugene Carr-Fanning ...

Once inside the church, it’s a vertiginous trip up the spiral staircase before you are let through a trap door and into a warm, brightly lit room with a high wood ceiling and whitewashed walls. It’s ...

Bell ringers and pubs go together quite well and ... desire to collect churches and tick them off. Playing at another church is called ‘tower grabbing’, and when I was there, a visitor from ...

Pretty basic. A few had more advanced versions where all a bell ringer had to do was press switch. Not so the bells of Kilifi’s St Thomas ACK Church, where bell ringers have to be specially ...