When will the carillon bells at First Presbyterian Church start ringing again?
If you’ve been missing the bell renditions of standard church hymns such as “Holy, Holy, Holy” or “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” from the Gothic tower at First Presbyterian Church downtown, you only have to wait a few more weeks. The church discontinued its daily carillon bells presentation in March 2009 when it began masonry renovations to the facade of the church. “We had to take out the bells for the renovations and had to replace the bracket that holds all the speakers in,” said facilities manager Gary Southerland. “It’s a custom-made metal box, and we just got it back.” Most of the renovations are done on the church’s main chapel and are continuing in the back of the building now. The church hopes to take down its scaffolding in the next month. But did you know that the carillon bells at First Presbyterian aren’t really physical bells? What we hear may sound like a massive bell choir ringing throughout downtown Wilmington. But the “bells” are an electronic carillon, speakers that
