Collectors of bells value them for their age, uniqueness and craftsmanship. Being very old or connected with some historical event certainly increases their importance, while having an unusual shape ...

Three new bells arrived for installation at Notre-Dame on November 7. One of the bells had been used for the Summer Olympics in Paris. Chesnot / Getty Images For the first time in more than five years ...

Michael LaFreniere, lead bell ringer at the San Luis Obispo mission, carries on a family and community tradition.

Nearly two dozen Philadelphia neighborhoods will see fiberglass bells installed as part of the Bells Across PA project. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

Church bells dating back to the 17th century have been carefully restored using modern technology after they became "increasingly difficult" to ring. The six bells in St. George's Church tower in ...

The ringing of the brass altar bells was one of my favorite moments when I was an altar boy, and also in my experience of the Mass to this day. At Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Lafayette ...

Perhaps no single piece of secular music is more ubiquitous during the Christmas holiday season than "Jingle Bells," the venerable ditty about the joys of dashing through snow-covered fields while ...

Four-sided hand-bells are emblematic of the early Irish church. They were used from St Patrick’s time in the 5th century and – like the cow-bells they copied – were made at first from sheet iron.

A new set of bells will soon be ringing out on campus at the University of Chicago. The giant metal bells were dedicated Aug. 4 in Hutchinson Courtyard in honor of 12 notable people with ties to the ...

If you hear the word “tintinnabulation,” you are almost certainly going to think of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Bells,” perhaps only because you are unlikely to remember anyplace else you’ve heard ...