A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 170
st, and have always re-tained, their character of isolated, or nearly iso-lated, plain vertical shafts. (See Campanile.)Tho.se of the North were, from the first, morecommonly designed as inseparable parts of the287 BELL TOWER church building. In all, tiic same conditionsobtained with regard to the… … Bell Tower of Old CATirEDRAL at Zaragoza, SrAI.N, C. 11)85 A.D. Municipal bell towers existed as early as theeleventh centurj, in Italy, and also in the Nortli.They were at first used also as towers of de-fence, as in the case of di-sorders within thetown. Later, they became ornamental features,288…
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