THE bells of Selby Abbey will ring this weekend to mark a special anniversary. This Saturday, there will be a full peal on twelve bells, starting at 10.30am and lasting for three and a half hours ...

Picture An old photograph of Selby Abbey Bells and Ringers, dated 1906 - The Bells were destroyed by the Fire on October 20th 1906. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Bells on Sunday comes from Selby Abbey in North Yorkshire. The bells were cast in 1909 by John Taylor with the largest weighing 25 hundredweight. We hear them ringing rounds and call changes.

The destroyed bells of Selby Abbey after the 1906 fire. On September 26 1912, the Archbishop was back in Selby Abbey to consecrate the rebuilt south transept.

Selby Abbey, founded in 1069, is one of the few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period. The Heritage Fund money is the first stage of a bid for £1.1m for the abbey's Origins history project.

The peal is part of Selby Abbey’s 950th anniversary celebrations, and will reflect on the central tower's collapse in 1690, which demolished the south transept as it fell.

A landmark abbey church in North Yorkshire has been awarded £150,000 in lottery cash for a project aiming to highlight its near 1,000-year history. Selby Abbey, founded in 1069, is one of the few ...