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3 unusual facts about bell tower


Belfry Witches

The show was called 'Belfry Witches' because the two witches lived in a church belfry.

Kirzhach

An open gallery connects the cathedral with the nearby Savior church, which has a square tower and a tent-like belfry.

St Twrog's Church, Maentwrog

Out the church near to the belfry door is a large stone known as Maen Twrog (maen being the Welsh for stone).


Brashlyan

The monastical school (working in 1871–1877), the St Pantaleon, St Petka and St Marina chapels and the 17th-century bell tower of the St Demetrius Church have been restored by a local association; an ethnographic collection and an open air museum of agriculture were set up as well.

Church of São Mateus da Calheta

Sensibly recessed from the main facade, the three-story towers are separated by cornices and friezes, with the two inferior floors occupied by rectangular windows, and the third register occupied by the belfry, with Roman Arch and flanked by pilasters.

Harlaxton

The church has an early 14th-century tower with clasping flying buttresses to the lower stages and angled buttresses above.

Holton-le-Clay

and in 1964 Pevsner described it as "A rough and, at the time of writing, neglected church", with an 11th-century tower and west window, Decorated bell-openings, a Norman font, and a 1636 Paten cover.

Kolyu Ficheto

He learned stonecutting in the Albanian town of Korçë when he was 17, and then mastered the construction of churches, bell towers and bridges from the craftsmen in Bratsigovo.

Southgate, West Sussex

Park Lodge has been considerably altered but retains the character of a "late Victorian red-brick villa"; Masons Hall is later (1905) and "rather eccentric", resembling a Tuscan villa and featuring a campanile-style projection at one corner.


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Abbey of Vangadizza

The base of the bell tower include antique elements, such a bas-relief with a Maenad, dating from the 1st century AD.

Antonio di Vincenzo

In 1397, Antonio built the second bell tower of the church of San Francesco in a Lombard-style.

Artogne

Church of Sant'Andrea fifteenth of style with bell tower of the 15th century.The presbytery is separated from the nave by an iron grating.

Caracas Cathedral

The first construction of the cathedral replacing the small church commenced in 1666 under Juan de Medina, and a bell tower was added.

Coat of arms of Croatia

A Split stone baptistry from the time of Peter Krešimir IV (r. 1058–1074/5) has engraved falcons that carry something that resembles a chequy on their wings, and the bell tower of the medieval Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor has a checkerboard pattern carved onto it.

Codiponte

The village has a 17th-century campanile (bell-tower) and medieval pieve (Pleban church) called "Pieve dei Santi Cornelio e Cipriano", which is dedicated to the Saints Cornelius and Cyprian.

Duke Chapel

The bell tower of Duke Chapel is modeled after the Bell Harry Tower of Canterbury Cathedral.

El Fadrí

El Fadrí, also known as the Fadri Tower, is a standing alone bell-tower of the Gothic procathedral Concatedral de Santa Maria of Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

Fritwell

In 1865 the church was restored and the bell tower was rebuilt inder the direction of the Oxford Diocesan architect and Gothic Revivalist G.E. Street.

Gerolamo Theodoli

He also designed the bell tower for Santa Maria dei Miracoli, the church of Santi Marcellino e Pietro in Rome, the church of San Pietro at Vicovaro, near Tivoli, and the altar of the Immaculate Conception in the Cathedral of Tivoli.

Hampden County Courthouse

The building is shaped roughly like the capital letter I, with the main facade emphasizing vertical lines, tall windows, and two tall dormers on either side of the bell tower.

Ilocos Sur

Churches - most notable of these churches include the Vigan Cathedral (which is the seat of eva Segovia, and where the remains of the Ilocano poet Leona Florentino is interred), Santa Maria Church (which is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list), Candon Church (has a grand facade and is famous for its tall bell tower and the longest painting in the Philippines) and Sinait Church (which houses the miraculous Statue of the Black Nazarene).

Perlach

Perlachturm, (English: Perlach Tower), a bell tower built in 1182 in Augsburg, Germany

Riddarfjärden

Stockholm City Hall, a red brick building with a bell tower, where the Nobel Prize dinner is served

San Michele Maggiore, Pavia

A first church devoted to St. Michael Archangel was built on the location of the Lombard Palace chapel (to this period belongs the lower section of the bell tower), but it was destroyed by a fire in 1004.

Skała

Skala is the seat of a gmina, and has a late Baroque church (18th century), with a wooden bell tower (1765).

St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot

This involved extending the nave by 30 feet, similar to what Lorimer had originally intended in 1926 and reducing the height of the bell tower.

St Mary's Church, Hampstead

No taller than houses numbered 4 and 5 to either side, the Church’s distinctive façade with bell tower and statue of Virgin and Child was designed by architect William Wardell as the first addition to the original building at the time the law was changed to allow bells to be rung from Catholic churches in 1852.