For those of a campanological turn....

This being Holy Week, those of us in RC churches with bells rung in the English fashion generally get a lot of "you ring during holy week?" If your normal practice night occurs Mon-Wed.
Those of an Anglican persuasion (the majority of towers with bells rung that way) seem surprised, but why?
On Maundy Thursday, at the Mass of the Last Supper, the rubrics say:
7. The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said. While the hymn is being sung, bells are rung, and when it is finished, they remain silent until the Gloria in excelsis of the Easter Vigil, unless, if appropriate, the Diocesan Bishop has decided otherwise. [Can't think of a good reason you would. A notable death requiring tolling maybe? But demonstrably above my pay grade...] Likewise, during this same period, the organ and other musical instruments may be used only so as to
support the singing.
Is there a similar rubric in Anglican circles? Curious as to where it actually comes from...
Those of an Anglican persuasion (the majority of towers with bells rung that way) seem surprised, but why?
On Maundy Thursday, at the Mass of the Last Supper, the rubrics say:
7. The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said. While the hymn is being sung, bells are rung, and when it is finished, they remain silent until the Gloria in excelsis of the Easter Vigil, unless, if appropriate, the Diocesan Bishop has decided otherwise. [Can't think of a good reason you would. A notable death requiring tolling maybe? But demonstrably above my pay grade...] Likewise, during this same period, the organ and other musical instruments may be used only so as to
support the singing.
Is there a similar rubric in Anglican circles? Curious as to where it actually comes from...
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Same at Our Place (also C of E, but Roman Catholic as near as makes no difference these days), with people being invited to jangle bunches of keys if they don't happen to possess a hand-bell!
I recall being firmly admonished by an outraged Madam Sacristan, when I began unthinkingly to toll the bell a few minutes before the Good Friday Liturgy. Apparently, this would have earned me about another million years in Purgatory...
Our one-and-only bell is out of action at the moment, much to the annoyance of FatherInCharge, who likes it to be rung at just about every opportunity (apart from those forbidden by Madam S).
I was curious as there's written reasons why an RC church can (which usually causes surprise) but nothing concrete the other way.
I think liturgical rubrics only apply to what goes on inside the building, where the thing is happening. I have never seen anything that mentions bells in the tower.
Never seen a tower equipped with a Crotalus, mind!
It would have to be a whopper. I remember them from my youth. The temptation to mutter "Up the Reds" was strong.
In Scotland,for example,they were not legally permitted until 1926 (That is not to say that they didn't exist )
Of course it wasn't only RC churches but also Episcopal churches.,since only Church of Scotland charges were officially allowed to ring bells to call the faithful to worship.
The Cowgate chapel in the Old Town of Edinburgh which,as an Episcopalian church which pledged its loyalty to the Hanoverians,was given in 1774 the special privilege of a bell and a fine bell tower. The bell in fact was removed when the Episcopalian congregation moved to the up and coming New Town of Edinburgh and built St Paul's and St George's - the bell came from the Catholic chapel royal in Holyrood Palace which was destroyed during religious riots.
After a time as a (non CofS) Presbyterian church the Cowgate chapel became St Patrick's RC church (with a new (but illegal) bell brought from Ireland.
St Patrick's RC church which may become officially the Edinburgh Oratory is celebrating
its bicentenary this year and the Oratorian Fathers are keen to invite the various other religious groups which have used the building to the celebrations.