Word Finder - campanile

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A bell tower (now especially when freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile.

The fine campanile of the church is 246 ft.

On the south side of the façade is a large brick campanile, and the foundations of another may be seen on the north.

Sofia, a circular edifice of about 760, now modernized, the roof of which is supported by six ancient columns, is a relic of the Lombard period; it has a fine cloister of the 12th century constructed in part of fragments of earlier buildings; while the cathedral with its fine arcaded facade and incomplete square campanile (begun in 1279) dates from the 9th century and was rebuilt in 1114.

In the central square stands one of the finest belfries of northern France, a square structure surmounted by a wooden campanile, dating from the 14th century.

Ursus in 370-390, which had a nave and four aisles, was destroyed in 1734-44, only the (inaccessible) crypt and the round campanile remaining from the earlier structure; there are fragments of reliefs from a pulpit erected by Archbishop Agnellus (556-569) in the interior.

Francesco, as it has been called since 1261, when it came into the possession of the Franciscans, has been almost entirely modernized, except for the crypt and campanile (11th century).

The campanile (850-878) is circular, and has perhaps the earliest example of the use of disks of coloured majolica as a decoration.

It has a nave and aisles with a closed vestibule on the west, and a fine round campanile of the 9th (?) century.

The façade has been considerably altered, but the campanile, erected in 1178-1180, still exists; it is 252 ft.

Before 1405 the mortar used in Venice was made of lime from Istria, which possessed no hydraulic qualities and was consequently very perishable, a fact which to a large extent accounts for the fall of the Campanile of San Marco.

The Venetian campanile usually stands detached from the church.

It is almost invariably square; the only examples of round campanili in this part of Italy are to be found at Ravenna and at Caorle to the east of Venice; while inside Venice itself the solitary exception to the square plan was the campanile of San Paternian, built in 999 and now demolished, which was a hexagon.

The campanile is usually a plain brick shaft with shallow pilasters running up the faces.

The new Old South (the successor of the Old South, which is now a museum) is a handsome structure of Italian Gothic style, with a fine campanile.

Francesco, perhaps the finest medieval building in Bologna, begun in 1246 and finished in 1260; it has a fine brick campanile of the end of the 14th century.

The brick campanile has small columns with little pointed arches.

A Gothic style has been most commonly adopted in building modern churches; but of these the most notable, the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral (see Westminster), is Byzantine, and built principally of brick, with a lofty campanile.

Close by the Duomo is the no less famous Campanile built by Giotto, begun in 1332, and adorned with exquisite bas-reliefs.

The campanile is 175 ft.

The campanile car "leaning tower of Pisa" is a round tower, the noblest, according to Freeman, of the southern Romanesque.

There is no reason to suppose that the architects, Bonanno and William of Innsbruck, intended that the campanile should be built in an oblique position; it would appear to have assumed it while the work was still in progress.

Justinus being the first bishop. The cathedral has been spoilt by restoration, and the decoration of the exterior is incomplete; the Gothic campanile of 1335 is, however, fine.

The picturesque battlemented campanile belongs to 1213.

On the north side of the church is a lofty tower, called the tower of Peppin; while the slender brick campanile on the south dates from 1045 to 1178.

The campanile by Sanmichele is unfinished.

It has a lofty campanile, surmounted by a graceful octagonal upper storey.

The cathedral is modern, but the crypt, with twenty columns, is old, and the campanile dates from the 13th century.

Giovanni Battista is a good baroque edifice of 1617; by it stands a fine 13th-century campanile.

The lofty campanile of the cathedral was erected in 1050 with fragments of Roman buildings.

The campanile, Sicilian in style, was completed in 1234, while the dome, which betrays similar motives, is even later.

Maria della Pieve, having a campanile and a façade of 1 216, the latter with three open colonnades running for its whole length above the doors.

The golden cupola of the four-storeyed campanile is visible for many miles across the steppes.

These he has described in numerous reports, and he has also published a report on the campanile of St.

Two striking churches face each other in Collins Street, the Scots church, a Gothic edifice with a lofty spire, and the Independent church, a fine Saracenic building with a massive campanile.

A beautiful modern campanile (1853), erected by Lord John George Beresford, archbishop of Armagh and chancellor of the university, occupies the centre of the square.

A cylindrical campanile stands detached from the church on either side of the western apse (FF).

Francesco has a fine 14thcentury loggia and campanile, and a handsome portal of a chapel in the interior by Constantino Trappola (15th century).

Its campanile is a beautiful example of early Lombard terra-cotta work.

The lofty brick campanile (789-824) is among the earliest in Italy, and is decorated with coloured majolica disks.

Eustorgio, one of the largest Gothic churches in Milan, with some Romanesque survivals, dates, as it stands, with its campanile, from the end of the 13th century, and has a modern facade in the old style.

The cathedral of St Martin was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm (later Pope Alexander II.); but the great apse with its tall columnar arcades and the fine campanile are probably the only remnants of the early edifice, the nave and transepts having been rebuilt in the Gothic style in the 14th century, while the west front was begun in 1204 by Guidetto (lately identified with Guido Bigarelli of Como), and "consists of a vast portico of three magnificent arches, and above them three ranges of open galleries covered with all the devices of an exuberant fancy."

A beautiful Romanesque campanile was added to the baptistery in the 14th and 15th centuries.

The cathedral has a baroque façade; but traces of Romanesque work (12th century) can be seen at the sides and in the campanile.

The west parish church in Nicholson Street (1839) is in the Italian Renaissance style and has a campanile.

Its campanile, built after the model of the famous campanile in Venice, is crowned with a bronze statue of St Eufemia, the patron saint of the town, whose remains are preserved in the church.

It has a noble facade with a deeply recessed portico, and a brick campanile of 1414.

Its site is somewhat circumscribed, and this and its great bulk renders difficult any real appreciation of its complex outline; but its stately domed campanile, 283 ft.

To illustrate Decorated and Perpendicular the churches of Clifton and of Marston Moretaine, with its massive detached campanile, may be mentioned; and Cople church is a good specimen of fine Perpendicular work.

The pilgrimage church of the Madonna dei Miracoli, begun in 1498 by Vincenzo dell' Orto, has a dome of rich architecture externally; the campanile dates from 1516, the rest of the church is later.

The cathedral, a fine basilica, of the 12th (?) century, with columns and fantastic capitals of the period, originally flat-roofed and later vaulted, with 16th-century restorations, contains the tomb of Pope John XXI., and has a Gothic campanile in black and white stone.