{"id":37468,"date":"2024-10-19T03:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/church-bell-rings-after-150-years-of-silence\/19\/10\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T03:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T07:21:02","slug":"church-bell-rings-after-150-years-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/church-bell-rings-after-150-years-of-silence\/19\/10\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Church bell rings after 150 years of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After sitting silent for more than 150 years, a Somerset church bell is ringing again – in an Australian wedding chapel.<\/p>\n

The bell, which dates from about 1550, once rang worshippers to church at Upton village and is now Australia’s oldest ringing church bell.<\/p>\n

Cherie Reid, who built the wedding chapel at Kantara House in Green Point, New South Wales, said she rescued the bell from disrepair to install it 9,500 miles away from its original home.<\/p>\n

“The whole journey [to buy the bell] has just been so wonderful. I do feel a bit of pride about the end result,” Ms Reid said.<\/p>\n

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Cherie Reid (left), pictured with her daughter Karina, rings the bell at the end of wedding services [Cherie Reid]<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

When the original 14th Century church of St James in Exmoor National Park was replaced\u00a0in 1870, it was built without a bell tower.<\/p>\n

Its two ancient bells sat silent until being sold on – one to Australia and one to St Mary Magdalene Church at Sandringham.<\/p>\n

Ms Reid rings the bell at the end of wedding services at its New South Wales home.<\/p>\n

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