Robert’s talk is about things which are for the most part heard but not seen – the bells and the sometimes spectacular structures within towers which support them. He will speak about medieval bells and their conservation but focus on the development of medieval and later bell frames which evolved so that the bells could […]

The suggestion that prayer times should be determined by where the sun is in the sky seems strange today, but evidence of this practice abounds on the walls of medieval churches in the form of primitive sundials. Dr Frank King is a Fellow in Computer Science at Churchill College, Cambridge, University Bellringer and Keeper of […]