To HATE the church bells?

No, it's not. The houses were built there first

OP said she had just moved to a new area where the bells are ringing ???

@MooseBeTimeForSnow Ooh, how did that come about?

I love to hear bell ringing practice here, I was just listening to it! I'm probably not as close as OP but I love the sound, I find it comforting.

I'll walk over one night and see how loud it is if you live next to it - but any church is almost sure to have been there first. It's 90 mins here and has ben 2 hours a couple of times. Two nights a week.

Unfortunately us bell ringers come from all walks of life. Some work some don’t. So practice sessions tend to be evening or Saturdays. It’s a hobby that needs to be practiced and is hard mentally and physically especially if you get tricky bells to ring. If you want bells ring for weddings/christenings/funerals/church services and other occasions then it’s what happens. Computer simulations only help you a little to learn the basics of methods. If you don’t like the sound - why not roach up to a practice session and get involved and help make the practice sessions go from meh to perfection!

Bells can be rung muffled, but it doesn’t stop the sound totally. You can ask the tower captain if it’s possible and offer to help purchase or make and install and then remove the muffles as needed for practice sessions and services. It’ll be much appreciated!

Practicing twice a week means that weddings and funerals can be celebrated in traditional fashion.
It’s one of the arts we will lose if people don’t practice, like languages and drywalling.

I love the sound of the bells from our local church. Its the clock tower on the high street that chimes 3 minutes too slow every hour that I find annoying.

The village will not suffer if you move.

I always figured that as the church has probably been there for somewhere up to a thousand years, whereas I've been there for roughly ten minutes, it's a bit stupid to be surprised that there's normal noise for a church, much less to complain about it.

A full peel of 7 or more bells is like a marathon. It’s 5,000 or so different sequences. The stamina and concentration are something else.

Ringing a church bell is surprisingly difficult to learn and can be dangerous!

My (then) local church rang a quarter peel in my honour once. It was lovely.

After a time you do get used to it- that includes children trying to sleep.

I grew up opposite a church with bells and regular evening practice. Both my sibling and I slept through it as small children, growing up it just becomes background noise.

It's a bit less to ask that posters don't repeatedly accuse others of making poor choices before asking if they bought their home.

No, its not. The houses were built there first

Jesus Christ (pun intended)

YABVVU

I suspect you already know this though

Love church bells - I used to ring them as a teenager, it was an unusual set up where instead of moving the bell, you pulled a rope that moved the clapper, so you could operate eight bells solo.
It was great, you could make all sorts of stuff up.😂

Church has been there hundreds of years.

You've just moved in.

You KNOW YABU.

I have the window open and can hear the bell ringers practising.

I think it’s a bit much to require people to check that someone isn’t being rehoused after DV with no choice of accommodation.

You will get used to them.
My village has the church bells chime the hour, the half out and ding both quarter past and quarter to, plus bell ringing practice on Wednesday evenings and ring Sunday service plus some Saturdays I assume for weddings.

I've always loved hearing them, I'm not complaining but my point is I don't even notice it any more. I stopped hearing the times first but now don't even notice the wed or sun ringings. It's only if we've got people over and they comment on it that I realise.

You really do just stop paying attention in the end.

Its entirely normal.

Yabu!
Personally I love the sound of church bells but admit they are better from a distance!
If you live right next to a church I can see the potential for it to be annoying but then if you live near a church it often comes with the territory- like living next to a school and moaning about a noisy playground or lots of parked cars.

I'm staying next to a Romanian Orthodox church at the moment (in the UK) and they rang the bloody bells at 3am. Apparently it was their Easter Day. I was not best pleased. At least you don't have that to put up with, OP.

Choice... amazing thing isn't it.

Yeah. If you have it.

Guess you better move then!

Who chooses to live near a church and dislikes bells?

YABVU.

I love listening to the bells on Monday night and Sunday morning plus often on a Saturday. We chose to be not right next door though as I knew it wouldn't be good for me.

Choice... amazing thing isn't it.

I want to stress I'm not picking on you, it's just that every other post says this and it's getting on my tits almost (not quite) as much as the priory's malfunctioning auto-chimes. I LIVE IN A FUCKING HA FLAT! I was lucky to get it, though I can guess why it was vacant.

All this "Why did you buy a house next to a church" actually is a case for checking your privilege, mates.

I think people are being disingenuous.

I’m sure even those who love the sound of the bells would agree there’s an upper limit on how long they should be ringing.

I do think 2 weekly 90 minute sessions is well into annoyance territory.