Kampana

Santa Ana Church Bells

There are five still existing church bells of the old church. The central bell is the biggest, one of it's distinctive feature is the embossed San Andres curved at the bell. Old bells were dedicated to patron saints. Puzzling was that San Andres was not the patron saint of the town. This bell is hung from the bellfry cieling at the old wood trusses. Next to the central bell was the medium size, connecting the large one to the other small seen from the outside. This bell is no longer in used, sat flat at the floor. The other two bells were the smallest relatively same in size. The one connected to the central bell thru the medium size bell is seen from the church facade. Rope connects the small bell and the central as this rope ends at the lower floor for the so as to be rung. The other small bell was at the opposide side as the former. Both of the small bells cannot turn 360 degrees as they work originally. The other bell at the opposite side lies diagonally due to the deformation of the wood holding the bell attached to the bellfry. One bellhead was there, probably the rumored bell as they say was lost. There seems quite a relative evidence about the story. The other openings of the eight sided bellfry had an indication that there was formerly a bell existing. The rumor stays a slip of a tongue.

(First of series of post featuring Santa Ana Church)