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The gorgeous gothic tower looking over Riverside Church had been closed to the public for two decades. The tower is the tallest steeple in North America, looming 392 feet over Morningside Heights, … ...
After being silenced for more than 10 years, the bells in the tower of St. Francis Catholic Church, a small rural parish in Thermopolis, Wyoming, began ringing again for this past Christmas Eve ...
It was 70 degrees and sunny for a blue sky dedication and blessing of the clock tower and new church bells on Aug. 11 at (OLPH) Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Glenview (1775 Grove St.).
This is the first in a series of stories that looks at historic bells and bell towers in the region. Today's story looks at a church that raised funds to repair its 135-year old bell tower then ...
The Leaning Tower of Niles — a replica of the famed structure in Pisa — in suburban Chicago. (Credit: Raniero Tazzi/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).) Listen NILES, Illinois — Bells at the ...
The bells at St. George's Church in Hinton date back to 1623 and were last restored 100 years ago. ... The six bells in St. George's Church tower in Hinton, Somerset, date from 1628 to 1922.
Church bells will ring out over Leechburg again this Easter. ... Today, 28 bells are housed in the bell tower. The church raised more than $20,000 to repair the system.
Three large, heavy swing bells came down from the tower of Zion United Church of Christ in Tremont on Thursday. The bells will be boxed and shipped to a Catholic church in Vietnam.
For most, church bells are just a quaint bit of automated background noise. But Pallàs and his 18 students at the Vall d’en Bas School of Bell Ringers are trying to change that by resuscitating ...
Most "musical" church towers in the state are mechanical contraptions, like music boxes. Others are not even real bells, but just recordings played through a loudspeaker. To qualify as a carillon ...
Four 16th Century church bells have been taken from their tower for the first time in 500 years. The bells, each weighing almost one ton, have been removed from St Michael's Church in Brough ...