The sound of the bells does carry the nature of the sanctuary with it, but that is perhaps not its primary function. Not at all an expert on campanology, but there are some interesting things about it. The Orthodox in Lent, or perhaps in monastic austerities apparently prefer hammers on wood--kontakion, or something like that. The founder of Islam wanted someone to call from the place of prayer, thinking a human voice was better than the sound of iron. Of course now, those voices are modulated quartz and electricity. A mathematician at Oxford once founded a new college (I think) further away from the dreaming spires, because the bells kept breaking his trains of thought. In folk beliefs, they have the power to avert storms. In Puritan New England, the largest one would be slowly tolled when word of death was received.
Interestingly, at Rome, at least according to Fortescue (I think), the bells at consecration were omitted from the papal liturgy, and from the rubrics for bishops in their own dioceses.
Something about source and emanation, perhaps. They're quite idyllic in the present context. Which is perhaps to say, the unsettling effect is welcome. Indications of the source.