To HATE the church bells?

[ShyPearlMoose]

I have just moved to a new area and I am so annoyed by the church bells ringing. They ring from 7:30-9pm on Tuesday and Wednesday nights and they are SO LOUD. I'm trying to wind down by this time but cannot get any silence so they're really bothering me. I know it's people practicing but does their hobby really have to disturb the entire town's evening for 90 minutes twice a week?
I can only think how annoyed some parents might be when trying to get their children to sleep on school nights.
Anyone else annoyed by them?

Also this is an excellent solution to being annoyed by the bells. If you can’t beat them join them. They’re usually fond of a pint after too so good socialising!

YABU I'd guess the church was there way before your house.

Maybe the rest of the town quite likes the bells 🤷‍♀️

It's a church. There's bells every hour / half hour / quarter hour, on Sundays, high days and holidays, at weddings, and yes in evenings for bell ringing.

I love this. There is 7,000 churches with ringable bells in them in the country. But probably Essex

How long is recently? Only asking because from experience you just get used to it and it doesn't really register anymore. Granted it takes a while though!

Yabu. You chose to move next to a church. Churches have bells and people practise ringing them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is like moving to the beach and being pissed off at the sand.
Or the countryside and being annoyed at the smell.
Or near a school and annoyed at drop off/pick up.
Or a pub and being annoyed by the sound of people leaving.
Or in a city centre and not liking the air quality.

(Trying to think of more examples but you get the point...)

All these "I love the soothing ding-dong of Christian clocks worship" don't live really close, do they?!

Could be worse. I once rented a room in Como: a sweet old garret, really high up. It was just about level with the bell towers of the SEVEN churches within a minute's walk. I swear it was a 6 on the Richter scale.

Maybe the ringers should just mime?

Actually, you’ve just reminded me of a friend of mine who moved to a tiny village with a fractious baby, lost it one evening when the bellringers apparently overran their usual time, thrust the baby at her husband, ran through the churchyard and into the bell tower shouting, then burst into hysterical tears, was soothed by the apologetic bellringers (who were prepping for some big change ringing festival), and ended up joining them.

I will end the anecdote there, before the domestic coplications that arose…

Ah we have Tuesday bells here, love them! Having said that, feeling unsettled due to noise is so hard, so invasive and really wears you down so I don't think you deserve the hard time you're getting. Sending a hug x

Did you move into ye olde bell ringers cottage? Of course YABU, the Church has been there for many many years and bells are traditional. All kinds of noises can irritate us. If you did not like church bells move somewhere they cannot be heard.

Tuesday seems to be bell ringing night practice across the nation. Sat listening to ours now (Oxfordshire)...

I get bell ringing sure, it's a church. I moved from a town with a church but they never rang for this long. 90 minutes in the evening twice a week feels excessive.

YABVVVVVVU!

At times if feels nice and others I cant stand the noise.

We have a property we bought several years ago to rent out in a nice location etc as we may want to move into later, However, the noise is much greater there than were we live , le 4 minutes walk from there

I love them. My grandmothers house was slap bang next to a church so was very accustomed to the chimes through the night, practice on Wednesday, weddings and services on weekends. The practices didn’t half go on, but even in single glazed house max 15 metres from the church it wasn’t a problem.
I find church bells comforting.

Yabu. Church there how many years, you just moved there. Shocked you didn't research. Love church bells, it's comforting and safe.

This.

YABVVU

Briefly lived in a flat very close to Chester cathedral. Now those were some fucking bells. My whole head was ringing by the end of the day on Sunday.

However that's part of life near a church/cathedral/bell tower of any kind.

When I moved next to a church (through no fault of my own-DV relocation), I popped in and spoke to the vicar/priest.

The bells peeled every 15 minutes, then, on the hour, they did the full peal, followed by the 'dongs'. Midnight was impossible to ignore.

I explained to him, that anyone else making that level of noise, with that frequency, would be slapped with an ASBO.

He invited me for lunch, and I met all the 'churchy' people - volunteers etc.
They gave me a huge amount of support, and the vicar was my referee, when I felt ready to apply for jobs.

When I finally found a home 10 miles away, I missed it, and me and my son struggled to sleep. The darkness and the silence were too much.

My point is, try to embrace it, if you can.
There are worse things.

Are you waiting until you go deaf before you move in? 😂

YANBU - they can absolutely be annoying and 3 hours p/w seems like too much.

I get you OP! I don't live next to the church (11 mins walk according to google!) and can hear ours. I have also been sat since 7pm thinking I could do without that tonight. Despite the distance, it sounds like they're ringing in the back garden!

I love church bells - ours practise on a Monday from 7.30.
We used to live near a little airfield which had been there since pre-WW1 and people moved into the area and complained about the odd buzzy little private plane overhead.

Other churches have been issued noise abatement notices for similar. I remember one local-ish to me was required to limit its practice to 1 hour per week following complaints from neighbours.