Immanuel Chapel is home to eight change ringing bells, crafted by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in England. In the fall of 2014, the bells were lifted into the tower during the final phases of construction.
For more information about the Immanuel Chapel bell tower, the VTS Guild of Bell Ringers, or opportunities for taking lessons, please write to bell-tower-contact@vts.edu.
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is a bell foundry in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The foundry’s main business is the bell founding and manufacture of church bells and their fittings and accessories, although it also provides single tolling bells, carillon bells, and handbells. The foundry is notable for being the original manufacturer of the Liberty Bell. Big Ben, which tolls the hour at the Palace of Westminster was cast in 1858.
