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?

We get far more complaints when we occasionally don’t have a practice than when we do . Same when the clock stops working.

You're never going to win the No-Bell Peace Prize, so get used to it or find somewhere else to rent.

when they have their mid week practise/practise (I can never get that right)

I always remember this by reference to advise and advice. So practise is the verb, practice is the noun.

Change ringers don’t ring tunes.

But I guess you’re referring to the somewhat uneven sound that comes from inexperienced ringers. That’s why they need to practise— it’s harder than you think to manoeuvre several tonnes of bell in precise time.

A few years ago some one built a new expensive house on the outskirts of our village.
Then complained about the sound of he planes taking off... it was practically at the end of the runway....

Grumpy man was oldish but not THAT old! I saw him out in daylight, so he couldn't be a vampire, so just a regular human. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a grumpy person in Victorian times complaining about carts and the noise of children walking past having moved in to a house close to the new school.

Car park has been there over 40 years and is next to the school. HTH.

Why did you buy a house there then? I love our church bells.

Isn't that the plot of a movie? The first Airplane?

lollllll

Shouldn't have moved there then!!

Tuesday evening does seem to be the norm for bell ringing practice - it's the same here!
I have running club on a Tuesday and a Sunday morning, so I never hear the bells. On the rare occasion that I don't go, I always find it really nice to listen to them ringing away for an hour or so.

I love them! We live right across from the village church and I absolutely love sitting in the back garden on a sunny evening listening to the birds and the bell-ringing practice. Also on a Saturday morning if there is a wedding it's lovely. To me the church bells remind me of happiness and community and good times! The rest of the time our village is very peaceful with just the sound of wildlife and birds so it's perfect really 😊

I used to live in a really busy, built up area and the only noise was traffic, sirens and people and kids shouting - never again!

Are you sure that's not just the clock chiming every hour? 😆 Seriously though, along with the 'bells go off at 7am EVERY DAY' poster, I just find this unbelievable. I am not calling any of you a liar. I wouldn't do that, but it's just that I have NEVER known any Church have its bells ringing - on the hour - EVERY hour. How long for? 5 minutes? 10? Half an hour? Or - as I said - are you sure it's not just the clock chiming!!!

To the OP @ShyPearlMoose wait til the Church gets a new Vicar or Reverend, or there's another Coronation, or the anniversary of D-Day, or VE Day, or some other kind of celebration or memorium. The bells on the Saturday or Sunday of that celebration weekend go on for 4-5 hours then ... Just constantly.

And whilst they do have bell ringers at our Church, they have a recording of the bells too, and they just switch it on and fuck off home, then return 5 hours later to switch it off! 😆

Looking forward to your thread of rage then! Also, you saw a Church near when you were going to live, and didn't realise there would be Church Bells ringing? Really? REALLY?!

I bet you would move next to a Dairy farm, and then claim you didn't realised cows mooed.

😂

I adore church bells! They make me think of weddings and Sunday mornings.

People really don’t want to be impeded on by the outside world at all now do they?

I love the sound of church bells.

@ShyPearlMoose

did someone put a gun to your head and make you move there?
dis you do the reasonable checks of noise at different times of day before you moved?

if no your fault.

suck if up or move. Unless the bells were installed after you moved in.

be lucky you have a roof over your head.

No, it's not. I posted earlier about my local church's AUTOMATED chimes, which not only peal every quarter of an hour 24 hours a day but ring random tunes, thwarting your brain's efforts to predict and screen them out.

This thread's become a nice little club for posters claiming to live in Enid Blyton's fantasy world where church bells are only rung by teams of expert campanologists, only a couple of evenings a week, and are always high-quality instruments broadcasting twice-weekly concerts of charmingly traditional music through the sleepy village air.

At least with a mosque, the calls are only five times a day!

They were there long before you, get used to them or start planning another move.

Jesus. Do people really believe that housing associations offer a Rightmove-style selection of homes? I mean, I think this should be the case - in reality, you wait months and months for an offer (I was living in a relative's box room) and, if you turn down two offers, they decide you're not serious about it so you don't get any more offers.

"No, I can't take this tiny but generally okay flat because it's too near the church" is not a wise response 😂 My first offer was damp with mouldy ceilings, and the back door opened on a woodland path cluttered with used syringes. Church chimes are nothing compared to that! I just wish the rest of you would stop telling us we shouldn't have chosen our noisy homes 🙄

whoosh

Well you moved to an area where you can hear church bells so suck it up buttercup

I love Church bells- and I am fine with bell ringing ractice one evening a week for about 1 hour.

Our local Church however, rings 4 bells for every quarter, and 1 bell for each hour. At midnight that means 4 x 4 = 16 + 12 = 28. And on through the night.

I think it would be fair to stop the bells after 10 or 11pm, and start again st 7am. A good common sense solution.

I'm with you, OP. I lived in a badly insulated, single glazed house opposite a church for a couple of years, and it was incredibly loud. In fact, it was so loud that I couldn't hear the TV. I wouldn't have minded if it was an actual tune, but it was two notes over and over again! I could never get used to the clock going off every 15 minutes either.

I'm sure the local children are used to them and sleep fine. You'll probably barely notice them in a few weeks.

I grew up in a house right next door to the church. Not only could you hear the bells but it was so close you could hear the church organ and hymns being sung on a Sunday. Because of that hymns and organ music make me fancy a roast dinner. Pavlov would have something to say about that.