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Church Bells

  • 17-03-2006 4:06pm
    #1
    jax frost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭


    I used to think that church bells were quaint. Something reminiscent of country lanes, butterflies and pealing bells.

    Until Christchurch Cathedral plucked me from my ideological coma.

    They have an active campanology club and they ring the bells whenever they like.

    Ordinarily, their schedule is:

    Sundays: 10h00 - 11h00 AND 14h30 - 15h30
    Fridays: 19h00 - 21h00 (yes, a whole TWO hours straight)

    Then, when they have a competition, they ring them from 10h00 - 17h00 on any given day - enough to drive a person completely insane considering we live across the road. Also, it's St Patrick's Day today and they have been ringing them non-stop for 3 hours, since the parade ended.

    They have been ringing their silly little bells for a thousand years so nobody is going to be able to stop them at that rate and I don't intend to.

    My problem is this:

    If I lived over the road from a heavy-metal bandstand, they wouldn't be getting away with the noise levels, the frequency and the unpredictability.

    Why is this church apparently exempt from community laws?

    Why should I move out of a beautiful apartment because the bell ringers accross the road can't keep to their already full schedule.

    Does anyone out there agree with me?

    So some of you will say "move" or "deal with it" but why should I have to?


Comments

  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Why is this church apparently exempt from community laws?
    As long as they don't ring the bells outside reasonable hours, they aren't.
    If I lived over the road from a heavy-metal bandstand, they wouldn't be getting away with the noise levels, the frequency and the unpredictability.
    Sundays: 10h00 - 11h00 AND 14h30 - 15h30
    Fridays: 19h00 - 21h00 (yes, a whole TWO hours straight)

    Unpredictable...


  • #3
    jax frost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭jax frost


    Unpredictable because they don't stick to those hours above.

    Read my post again, doofus.


  • #4
    danger mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭danger mouse


    That would drive me ****ing mad. I work nights so need to sleep during the day and niose levels have to be minimal to achive such.


  • #5
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,979 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    The thing is, you knew the cathedral was there when you moved in, right? Did you check up on whether or not they rang the bells? It sounds a bit like someone buying in Portmarnock then complaining when Dublin Airport gets busier. I'm sure it's annoying, don't get me wrong, but the city isn't the country and noise is part of city life.


  • #6
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Hey at least you get real bells....our local church (60m from my front door) uses a tape loop over a PA-loudspeaker type affair (with the volume at 11) to call the worshippers...lovely thing to wake you of a sunday...


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  • #7
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Wertz wrote:
    Hey at least you get real bells....our local church (60m from my front door) uses a tape loop over a PA-loudspeaker type affair (with the volume at 11) to call the worshippers...lovely thing to wake you of a sunday...
    so does mine.
    i vow someday that i'll get in there and change the tape to "hells bells" or something.


  • #8
    Litcagral
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Litcagral


    danger mouse wrote:
    That would drive me ****ing mad. I work nights so need to sleep during the day and niose levels have to be minimal to achive such.


    Ear plugs - available in every pharmacy and hardware shop. I work nights regularly and use them. I can't understand why others don't. Get a great day's sleep.


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