To HATE the church bells?

At least you have real church bells. Most churches don't have that now. They play the sound but not from people and real bells anymore!

YABU.
Grew up listening to church bells as lived near one and they're lovely.
You're not one of those annoying types who's moved from a city/town to a village and near a church and then suddenly started complaining, I hope?! 😁

The church bell ringers here must use their practice time to get steaming drunk as they can never perform any sort of tune without cocking it up!

Think along the lines that instead of a light skippy tune of “oranges and lemons”
we get
“or AN ges ges andlem ONS”

I suspect it they made it more a “get pissed and make some noiiiise!” more people would take up the hobby!

The church has been there a lot longer than you. We've had the same complained about in our village. We also had complaints to the infant school about kids shouting at lunchtime. Check out the area before you move.

Ahem... I live in a housing association house up the road from a church that rings its bells on the hour, every hour, as well as Sundays, weddings, funerals, Christmas etc and runs a practise group every Tuesday. I still think that if you choose to live near a church, you can't complain about the sound of the bells.

with social housing there’s often little to no choice where you live. You can give a preference for one or two areas but there’s no guarantee. With my HA if you turn down 2 properties you’d go to the bottom of the list again. There’s no way I want to be living where I live but I was homeless, had waited 2 years and just wanted a place to live . I’d not even have thought to check if there was a church nearby or dared turn it down if there had been in case the second choice was really bad.

Ahem... I live in a housing association house up the road from a church that rings its bells on the hour, every hour, as well as Sundays, weddings, funerals, Christmas etc and runs a practise group every Tuesday. I still think that if you choose to live near a church, you can't complain about the sound of the bells.

On a Sunday morning, I love nothing more than waking up to the sun shining, church bells ringing and walking round the garden with a cup of tea. I find the sound of church bells blissful.

There are so many threads on here about noisy neighbours with hot tubs, awful kids, parties all the time, church bells are a lovely sound.

I love hearing church bells. The ones in our local church are said to have been given to the church by the composer Handel.

Don't you just hate blow ins?

This sounds very odd.
Who are the bellringers that would even be able to get to the church 7 days a week before 7am, let alone who would want to ???

Though I think YABU OP. As everyone has said - moving in to a property in close proximity to a church with a bell tower, then complaining about noise (at perfectly reasonable times) from the bells, is clearly unreasonable.

How has it taken this long for you to realise you don’t like church bells? They peal out over most celebrations and many Christian activities.Are you originally from overseas so didn’t know what you were letting yourself in for?

Why didn't you research the area ?
Get over yourself. There are worse neighbourhoods to live in.
Christ on a bike.

That's very.. Christian of you 😂

You'll learn to tune them out eventually. We lived right next to a church for years and we barely even noticed them by a couple of months in. Its like living near a busy road, or a trainline, you just get used to it.

Me too!

Oh dear... you sound like people who move to the countryside then complain about no street lights, or move next to people with chickens & complain about the noise they make. You'll get used to them & if not, move again. The church was there long before you and will hopefully be there for a long time to come. I'd much rather hear tuneful church bells over traffic noise any day.

YADNBU.
The church bells here are horrendous, loud and monotonous and they go on and on and on and on. It’s torture.
Every Sunday morning I mentally compose my letter to environmental health and then I force myself to be tolerant and try and embrace live and let live. It’s not romantic bell ringers tolling away - it’s a recording, but it is deafening.

This!!! Two 90 minute sessions a week at a sociable time for the majority! Massively unreasonable.

The only thing you can do is go and join in @ShyPearlMoose

100% this. Well documented fact. Do NOT move near a Church if you don't like the sound of the bells .....

It's like don't move near a school and then whine about 100s of kids and multiple dozens of cars blocking the road, in your street for 40 minutes on the morning and 40 minutes on the afternoon.

Of course YABVVU @ShyPearlMoose Can't believe you even need to ask!

If only you had some sort of missile...

Sorry you've got the monty python church bells sketch in my head now.😂

Simply beautiful.

We loved opposite a church for 4 years. I stopped hearing them as I got so used to them and only heard them when visitors would comment!

Believe me OP when I tell you that after a while you won't register them.

When you hear a repeated noise your brain switches it off somehow.

Hang in there. You will stop noticing within 6 months.

@EmmaEmerald I was involved in a serious accident in which nine of my colleagues were killed. The peel was for my safe return.