Each has its own voice and name, from Batty Thomas in Dorothy L. Sayers's The Nine Tailors to Elizabeth, the tenor bell of the Royal Jubilee Bells. All, like ships, are female. Since the Reformation, ...

The chronicler Matthew Paris in 1255 noted that five bells were in use. A bell cast for the Abbey c.1310 by Richard de Wimbis (Wymbish) bearing the inscription "Christe Audi Nos" still exists and is ...

Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic ... by a procession, as the bells of the Vatican basilica rang ...

He was wheeled across the threshold as bells tolled across Rome and the choir ... and commit to protecting the planet. The aim of the Jubilee, he said, is “to bring hope to the interminable ...