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A church bell of the Alexander Nevsky and the Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Tampere, Finland. In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is a long and complex history of bell ringing, with particular bells being rung in particular ways to signify different parts of the divine services, Funeral tolls, etc.
Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service.
The bell can swing through a full circle in alternate directions. English full-circle bells shown in the "down" position, in which they are normally left between ringing sessions English full-circle bells shown in the "up" position. In the western world, the common form of bell is a church bell or town bell, which is hung within a tower or bell ...
Belfry. The belfry is a structure enclosing bells for ringing as part of a building, usually as part of a bell tower or steeple.It can also refer to the entire tower or building, particularly in continental Europe for such a tower attached to a city hall or other civic building.
The thickness of a church bell at its thickest part (the "sound bow") is usually one thirteenth its diameter. [11] If the bell is mounted as cast, without any tuning, it is called a "maiden bell". Russian bells are treated in this way and cast for a certain tone. [11] Cutaway drawing of a bell, showing the clapper and interior.
The steeple of the Alexander Church in Tampere, Finland. Towers are a common element of religious architecture worldwide and are generally viewed as attempts to reach skyward toward heavens and the divine. [1] Towers were not a part of Christian churches until about AD 600, when bell towers first came into use. [1]
Altar bells (missing one bell), with cross-shaped handle Altar bells Sanctus bells Mid-1900s three-tiered bell at the museum of Manaoag Basilica. In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Methodism and Anglicanism, an altar bell (also Mass bell, sacring bell, Sacryn bell, saints' bell, sance-bell, or sanctus bell [1]) is typically a small hand-held bell or set of bells.
The practice of using bells to mark time dates at least to the time of the early Christian church, which used bells to mark the "canonical hours". [2] An 8th-century Archbishop of York gave his priests instructions to sound church bells at certain times, and by the 10th century Saint Dunstan had written an extensive guide to bell-ringing to mark the canonical hours.