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A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay for restorations.
He was aged 78. The Belfry of Bruges honoured the film-maker by playing the theme to TV series Twin Peaks in its bell tower. The moment was captured on social media.
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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.
Erik Lindquist, a carpenter with Preservation Timber Framing, explains the reconstruction of the belfry that will eventually house the lantern of the Atkinson Academy bell tower.
The climb up the bell tower looks daunting. Thomas Kaufmann, historic preservationist and author of the newly published “Historic Alabama Bells,” ascends carefully up a long ladder, to a ...
A Meneely bell from the former Methodist church on 1st Ave. is lowered to the ground after being removed from the bell tower on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Watervliet, N.Y.
The Tower of Pisa was once feared on the brink of collapse as the lean that made it such a popular landmark threatened its very existence. As it celebrates its 850th birthday, experts now say its ...
The bell of St. Peter Church in Volo sat outside for years before being removed to be refurbished as work began on a new bell tower. It will be blessed May 15 and raised a few weeks later.
Xbox is reportedly publishing Project Belfry, a side-scrolling action game with an art style similar to Princess Mononoke.
We're talking about the carillon atop the Allen Bell Tower. If you've never heard of the carillon, watch the player above. It's not really an organ. The carillon plays every 15 minutes.