A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 160
lls au apparatus270 BELFRY is pniviiliil (Miisistini:; of a halt wheel, or, ininiKlern times, a wlieel forniiiij;; a complete circle,which wlieel is seciircil to a stock or head-stock at its axle, ami consisting of a very solidsiiort lieani of wood supporting the bell andmoving with tiie wheel.… … Belfkv : Interior of West Tower of Church at BERXlitRES, NEAR CAEX (CaLVADOS).The bell ropes pa.ss through holes in the vaulting to the church floor. has be«n substituted. The rope is secured toone spoke or brat^e of the wheel and follows itsgrooved circumference for perhaps one r|uarterof the…
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