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?

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.

Don't you just hate blow ins?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?! 😁

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!

I miss the sound of church bells on a Sunday morning, making me nostalgic for my childhood 🙂
The clock used to chime (and still does) every 15 minutes as well - once at quarter past, twice at half past, three at quarter to and then bong the number of bongs on the hour, so eleven at 11 etc.
Some posters on here would no doubt have a right tantrum 😁

I live next door to a church and during the pandemic, they'd ring their bells every single night at 7.
It was a nice gesture but a nightmare for when the kids were in bed!

@MegsNaiceJam they don't play normal tunes. They play bell music.

YAB sooo U

They are one of my favourite sounds in the UK! They're beautiful and speak to the history and heritage of the country that has slowly been eroded little by little by housing estates.

That would annoy me too. It's very anti social and I'm surprised they're still allowed to do it. The churches near me don't but then I'm not sure anyone goes to them.

This! I live in the countryside it's always funny to hear people who move to the area complain about the mud, cows and the machinery going through the village.. the farm was here before them, it won't shut down because someone finds it's annoying

There was a grumpy man who used to moan about the school traffic outside my DS's primary school. He'd bought a house opposite the school car park so we all wondered what he expected. The school was founded in Victorian times.

Well many people like bells for their weddings. If you want bells, the bell ringers need to practice.

Our church rings their bells and I like the sound. However, we live several streets away. I probably would think twice about moving close to a church with a bell tower (and would definitely check first)

I lived near a church growing up and loved the church bells! They were so comforting (and useful sometimes!)

im sure living right next door would be a bit of a challenge though for sure.

DH actually sent a letter to his church when he was growing up because the bells rang through the night and he couldn’t sleep. They did agree not to ring them at night!

They're lovely to listen to... from a distance.

I live very close to a church and it is just a loud noise that goes on for a long time when you live close by. They wake me up on the rare occasion that I get a lie in on Sunday mornings and keep me awake when they have their mid week practise/practise (I can never get that right) amd I've got to be up at 3am.

Unbelievable! I used to live a few blocks away from the fire station - did I complain when the (loud) fire alarm went off? No, I didn't. Did I complain about the trains going through town throughout the night when I lived near the railway line? No, I didn't.

If you don't like the bells then you will have to move, not everything in life is about you. YABVU.

The church was there before you. This is a very you problem and no one else’s.

People are allowed to be slightly annoyed with thongs without it being a 'them problem' or them thinking that everything should be about them.

Are you all just grumpy this morning or are you just happy to be another person to have a go at the OP just because you can?

All of these 'pile ons' are getting boring to read now.

I used to work in Warwick on occasion & St Mary’s would be playing film track music on the bells of the church, it was amazing.

I’ve left VED near churches that had bell practice and wedding bells etc, always enjoyed the sound

Did the Victorian cars also cause problems?