If you’ve ever wondered where the oldest remaining church bells are in the world, you just need to venture to Suffolk to see and hear them.

Take a trip to St Lawrence Church in the centre of Ipswich, and there you will find the set of five bells which all date back to between 1450 and 1480. 

The bells – collectively known as ‘Wolsey’s Bells’ – rang for hundreds of years before falling silent in 1985 after the tower they were housed in became too unstable to support them.
24 years later however and the bells were restored in 2009 thanks to a £100,000 restoration project.