Editing York Minster (section)

===Towers and bells===
[[File:York Minster Moon Light View 1844 Cadell Antique Print Waverley Novels Colour.jpg|thumb|York Minster in Moon Light, Waverley Novels IV 1844]]
The two west towers of the minster hold [[Bell (instrument)|bells]], clock chimes and a concert [[carillon]]. The north-west tower contains Great Peter (216&nbsp;[[Hundredweight|cwt]] or 10.8&nbsp;[[ton]]s) and the six clock bells (the largest weighing just over 60&nbsp;cwt or 3&nbsp;tons). The south-west tower holds 14 bells (tenor 59&nbsp;cwt or 3&nbsp;tons) hung and rung for [[change ringing]] and 22 carillon bells (tenor 23&nbsp;cwt or 1.2&nbsp;tons) which are played from a baton keyboard in the ringing chamber (all together 36 bells.)
[[File:Lower Petergate in York, England.jpg|thumb|[[Low Petergate]] with the Minster towers in the background]]
The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour.

The change ringing bells fell silent in October 2016, following the controversial termination of the ringers' volunteer agreements by the dean and chapter.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bell ringers update |url=http://www.yorkminsterbells.org.uk/?p=465 |website=York Minster Society of Change Ringers | date=13 October 2016 |access-date=15 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017141412/http://www.yorkminsterbells.org.uk/?p=465 |archive-date=17 October 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BellsGuardian">{{cite news |last=Perraudin |first=Frances |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/13/york-minster-to-fall-silent-after-sacking-bellringers-for-whom-the-bell-tolls |title=For whom the bell tolls: York Minster to fall silent as ringers sacked |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=13 October 2016 |location=London |access-date=16 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015235001/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/13/york-minster-to-fall-silent-after-sacking-bellringers-for-whom-the-bell-tolls |archive-date=15 October 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The pause in ringing included the Christmas period of 2016, reported as the first time in over 600 years that the Minster's bells were not heard on Christmas Day.<ref name="York Minster bells' first Christmas Day silence for 600 years">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-38436809 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |title=York Minster bells' first Christmas Day silence for 600 years |date=26 December 2016 |access-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418181730/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-38436809 |archive-date=18 April 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> After a year with no change ringing, a new band was appointed and ringing resumed.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sherwood |first1=Harriet |title=York Minster bells to chime again next month after year's silence |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/22/york-minster-bells-to-chime-again-next-month-new-bellringing-band |website=The Guardian |date=22 August 2017 |access-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602175223/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/22/york-minster-bells-to-chime-again-next-month-new-bellringing-band |archive-date=2 June 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

York Minster became the first cathedral in England to have a carillon of bells with the arrival of a further twenty-four small bells on 4 April 2008. These are added to the existing "Nelson Chime" which is chimed to announce Evensong around 5:00&nbsp;pm each day, giving a carillon of 35 bells in total (three chromatic octaves). The new bells were cast at the Loughborough Bell Foundry of [[John Taylor & Co]], where all of the existing minster bells were cast. The new carillon is a gift to the minster. It will be the first new [[List of carillons of the British Isles|carillon in the British Isles]] for 40 years and first hand played carillon in an English cathedral. Before Evensong each evening, hymn tunes are played on a baton keyboard connected with the bells, but occasionally anything from [[Beethoven]] to [[the Beatles]] may be heard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yorkminster.org/news/story220/new-bells-for-york-minster.html |title=New Bells for York Minster |last=Peacock |first=Alix |date=4 April 2008 |work=Minster News |publisher=York Minster |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107004751/http://www.yorkminster.org./news/story220/new-bells-for-york-minster.html |archive-date=7 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>