Bell-ringing is a tradition which goes back more than 400 years. It has brought pleasure and solace to generations of people who are ringers or hear the sound of the bells from our churches.

Learning to ring is the start of a life-long learning adventure - you’ll become part of a community that stretches all over the world. Ringers from the Llandaff and Monmouth Association have been made welcome at towers from Hawaii to New Zealand.

Ringing combines physical and mental skill, working as part of a team. You don’t have to be particularly strong as the bell does most of the work, and you only have to be fit enough to climb the steps to the ringing room.

It takes about 20 hours to learn to “handle” a bell to the stage that you can join us for ringing on Sundays and practice nights. As with any skill, the more practice you put in, the quicker you will learn. Once you can handle a bell you can join ringers at other local towers and ring every night of the week if you want to!

Enjoyment from Bellringing

CCCBR Video about why ringers ring:

1. Lynn Bowles (BBC Radio Wales) Learns to Ring

Watch and listen as Lynn Bowles learns to ring at Rumney, Cardiff.

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Video:
Lynn Bowles tries out bellringing (1:01mins, 6.6MB)

Audio clip from the programme:
Find out what happened when Lynn tried out ringing for the first time (10:58mins, 127MB)

2. Penarth Ringers feature in The Cardiffian

Really good, informative article in The Cardiffian by a journalism student featuring the ringers of St Augustine, Penarth.

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