Church bells

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Am i being unreasonable to think churches should not be aloud to ring those damn bells for hours on end a few times a week it not very christain disturbing neighbours etc for several hours

Move house. Church was there first.

RTFT or at least the OP’s updates. She is in a hostel. She didn’t chose where she lives.

Maybe that could have been in the op - not gonna read over 300 replies to answer 1 question.

If you click 'See all' on the OP you'll see all 4 of the OP's posts. No need to read 'over 300 replies'.

Some people seem to be!

Last Sunday would have been the Remembrance bells. Probably half muffled ringing for the 11 a.m. service and open ringing afterwards, to commemorate those who fell in the two world wars.

I'm not sure who you should complain to, to get this decades-long tradition stopped. The Royal British Legion, perhaps, or your local church.

Or - and this is a really extreme suggestion - you could move out of earshot of the church, if you really find these displays of respect and times for reflection so distasteful.

I've not rtft so forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but you just need to give it time. I've lived with a church literally at the bottom of my garden on two separate occasions in my life, both for some years and one church was a huge historic minster in a market town. You literally stop noticing after a while!

Get some noise cancelling headphones.

I wasn't having a go at you, just thought you must have missed the extra information. Studying threads in details isn't possible after a certain length.

Unless you live here... dammit wrong link. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1169498870176748?multi_permalinks=2044700515989908&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

Can't you even click 'see all' of the OP's posts?

You could contact the tower captain to ask why the bells are being rung so frequently for such a long time. To ring a peal takes three hours non-stop but peals aren't rung that often. It may be that there is something special going on at the church or in the local ringing guild that is causing them to be rung. We had quarter peal week in our ringing guild a couple of weeks ago and there were a lot of quarter peals rung - but they only take 45 minutes. That was only for a week though.

I don't think we've ever had a murder in the bell tower of our church!

Oh, the boringness of trotting out the current in-vogue words, mindlessly hoping to sound frightfully superior.
The intelligent among us know that 'privilege' is not involved at all in this thread, try to join us.

😆 Beautifully put!

No you didn't you had a chiming clock

Completely unreasonable. It's a timeless cultural heritage practice.

Given she's being made anxious by something harmless, CBT would be the right track. I posted my question before she told us it was a hostel. Women's Aid might be able to signpost her to a counsellor as might Shelter or similar if it's a homelessness issue.

What a way with words! 😂

No this is all l get

Noise is a strange thing and you can get used to it. We lived next to a printing works, our bedroom window was about 1.5m from their windows, being in the Med area our bedroom windows were open with shutters closed. They printed a newspaper 6 days a week, starting at 3am, no Sunday edition and we got used to this noise which was likened by a visitor to trying to sleep on a Tube station when heard during the day, even our new baby had no problem. However if it was Bank Holiday Monday and they didn't print at 3am on Monday we were awakened by the lack of noise!

I think a lot of people commenting haven’t actually lived near a church, they might think the bells are a lovely sound but after listening to them for several hours I suspect they would find it a bit grating.

Years ago I moved in with my ex boyfriend who lived opposite a church and didn’t realise how noisy it actually was. People are saying that bells don’t ring for hours on end but in my experience they did and I found it difficult.
I liked listening to them for short periods but when I had a 5am start and was going to bed at 9pm and the bells were ringing up till 10pm it was difficult, even with double glazing you could hear it clearly and couldn’t have the windows open in summer.
The neighbours also said they found it irritating and wished it didn’t go on for as long.

We lived in the best location for a night out but no one ever wanted to stay the night on a Saturday because they didn’t want waking up at 8am to loud ringing bells.

I couldn’t complain because as people have pointed out the church was there first and it is heritage, I was glad when I moved but I could still hear them half a mile away across town!

A church will have been there for anything up to 1000 years.
Bells are traditionally used to call the faithful to prayer. On Sunday there may be am & pm services and during the week the bellringers will practice for 2-3 hours.

Additionally bellringing teams will visit other towers to ring the bells; it develops their skills and gives them opportunities to ring different types of bells. Towers usually have an even number of bells 6-8-10-12 depending on size.

You should consider yourself lucky to be part of our heritage not be on here batching about it.
Why not go over next practice evening & introduce yourself & have a go? Ringers are welcomeing and tend to go to the pub after practice.

The thing is, bells just aren't rung for "several hours" at a time nonstop. Bellringers are only human and most bells are bloody heavy, plus you have to stand to ring them. Who has the stamina to heave bells for 5.5 hours as OP alleges? The longest you'll ever get being rung at one stretch is a peal of around 3-3.5 hours, and they're relatively rare because they're difficult and only a few ringers can manage them.

You're missing the fact that it just won't have been going on as long as OP claims, for the reasons I and others have set out in various posts.