Once attached, the heavy bell was lifted high up over the church building and then into the top window of the 42.24 metre-high spire.

"It is not an easy thing to do," tower captain Joy Fabry said. "It is only by the grace of God and Freo Cranes that we were able to do it," she quipped.

Freo Cranes had brought a team of four and a drone to ensure the bell's safe passage through the window and down into the body of the body of the tower.

From there, it was up to parishioners and the aptly-named bell-ringers, The Orange Pealers, to lift the 200kg into place.

The installation of the bell brings Holy Trinity Anglican Church's bell-count to nine, although the bell itself is far from new.

Estimated to be from 1926, the bell was in the tower until 2007 when renovations required its removal.

After that, it had been some task to try and get it back in again.

Thirteen years on and the only reason the ninth bell could be returned to its rightful home at all was due to Freo Cranes doing what should've been a very costly job for free.

"The beauty of this bell is that whilst we ring eight bells on big circles, this is a very simple bell that the parishioners themselves can ring," tower captain Joy Fabry explained.

So too can RSL members who also have a stake in the church due to the tower being a memorial to the First World War.

"Some of the bells have an amazing history," Jennifer Derrick added, such as "Noah" which is still encrusted with the sea algae from its past life in the North Sea.

From 1964 until the installation of GPS devices in ships, Noah was strapped to a buoy as a warning bell.

The oldest of the bells is from 1754 and carries the church's namesake: The Trinity Bell. At one point it was the oldest bell in the Southern Hemisphere.

Unlike the other eight bells in the tower, the newly-installed chiming bell can be rung from the ground level and doesn't need the expertise of the Orange Pealers to ring it.