A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 170
TiL. A knob, or handle, and itsa|ii)urtcnances, connected with a bell by anyinechanieal contrivance, and by which the bellis rung by pulling. BELL TOWER. A tower fitted and pre-pared for containing one or more large bells,and for allowing their sound to be heard prop-erly near at han<l, and also… … Bell Tower OF THE SiMPLt>: i i i i iurch at TiERCEVlLLE, NEAR CaEN (CALVAl>o^;, FkANCE.The tower has a saddl--back ruof. (see Tower); sometimes as watch towers, inwhich case the municipality might join with thebuilders of the church in erecting a tower; thecliurch itself serving, in early…
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