It will be joined in chorus by thousands of other bells from across the UK between 08:12 and 08:15 as part of artist Martin Creed’s London 2012 Festival commission, Work No. 1197.
All the bells will be rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes, from Britain's northernmost inhabited house in Skaw, the Shetland Isles, to the UK’s most westerly church in Tresco, The Scilly Isles.
This will be the first time that the strike of Big Ben has been rung outside its regular schedule since 15 February 1952, when it tolled every minute for 56 strokes from 9.30am for the funeral of King George VI.
The ringing will be attended by the speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon John Bercow MP; Lord Tony Hall, chair of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Board; and bell ringers from other organisations.
Members of the public are being encouraged to take part by ringing any kind of bell or downloading a free ringtone featuring 28 different bells sounds from .
Subscribers to the free official London 2012 'Join In' app will also be able to tap or shake their phone like a hand bell to release the Martin Creed bell sequence.
The event aims to set a world record for the largest number of bells to be rung simultaneously and will be broadcast by the BBC to a potential live audience of more than 10 million people across the UK on TV, radio and online.
Ruth Mackenzie, director of London 2012 Festival and the Cultural Olympiad, said: "All the Bells is London 2012 Festival's biggest community project, and we are incredibly excited that the commission allows everyone in the UK the chance to be part of history in the making as we aim to set a world record for the largest number of bells to be rung simultaneously."
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