Bells will toll at First Church on February 15 and again on February 19 as two separate groups of bell ringers, some from the United Kingdom, carry out the performances.
Retiree Peter Whitford, of Christchurch, is organising the first "peal" and said it was a "sheer coincidence" the two groups would be conducting peals — a complex bell performance lasting up to three hours — on separate occasions.
"It’s quite amazing. These events are rare on their own, so to have two in the space of a week is very uncommon."
Eight people, including two bell-ringing couples from England, would be travelling to Dunedin for the peal.
He estimated it would take about three hours and involve each bell ringer pulling the rope about 5000 times.
Bell ringing required a high level of teamwork, he said.
"Some of these ringers have taken part in thousands of peals.
"That’s a lot of times pulling on a piece of rope."
The second peal, on February 19, was organised by Peter Bill, of Devonshire, who would ring the bells in honour of his late wife Carol Bill, who died in 2018.
The group would ring a peal to remember his wife, "on the bells of the city where she first settled in New Zealand about 40 years ago".
She lived in Dunedin during the 1970s and learnt bell ringing on her return to the United Kingdom in the 1980s.
Mr Bill said he and fellow bell ringers from Devonshire were touring New Zealand during February ringing peals on all seven change-ringing bells in the country.
First Church was the southernmost ringing peal of bells in the world, making it "very special", he said.
