At the end of the ambulatory we come to the belfry.
In recent years the church has been extended one bay westward, and a belfry added.
Its belfry stood upright and on the Sabbath spoke out in the music of its chimes.
You see the yellowish looking building across the valley, with a heavy wall around it, and a belfry?
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Determined and resourceful, however, the clergyman fetched ladders and climbed into thebelfrythrough the trapdoor in its floor.
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Probably half the parsons occupying that church did not even know that the stuff was in thebelfry.
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And this does not apply only to a house; it applies to abelfryor wherever it may be.
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The normally flexible pads, which regulate the strength of the strike of the bell hammers, became hardened in the extremely low temperatures in thebelfry.
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Two other strange bats flit from the same belfries now and then.
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One fears that it could easily be directed precisely to bats in thebelfry.
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Does the parochial church councilbelfryaccount or kerbstone account need auditing?
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To achieve this end, in many cases some lovely old communion tables have been put to other uses within the church, some ever relegated to thebelfryor the vestry.
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The three stage tower has abelfrywith a peal of eight bells, three of which are dated 1615.
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The peaked roof is covered in asphalt shingles and pierced by a small octagonalbelfry.
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An apparatus was installed in thebelfryin 1877 so that all eight bells could be chimed by one person.
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It has an octagonal floor plan and a largebelfry.
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It has two two-lightbelfryopenings in each face, castellations and corner pinnacles with crockets.
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It is a singe-nave church with abelfryon its western facade.
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It features an engaged, clapboard sheathed bell tower surmounted by an openbelfry.
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