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 ...
SNOHOMISH — The church bell echoed through the Snohomish River valley. Farmers heard the sound and knew. The service was starting soon. Time to get going. A hundred years ago, locals gathered at the ...
When the Rev. Donna Spencer Collins first visited Groveland Congregational church, she heard the bell ring at the start of ...
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 ...
A climb up three narrow staircase flights and then a steep ladder leads to the belfry high atop Windsor’s historic Assumption Church. And there hangs the 4,000-pound (1.81-tonne) bronze Angelus bell ...