Bell Tower is a Grade I listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. A Medieval Bell tower.
Bell Tower
- WRENN ID
- solitary-wattle-onyx
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Bell tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
FLEET HALL GATE TF 32 SE (east side)
10/30 Bell Tower of Church of St. Mary Magdalen (formerly listed with the church of St. Mary Magdalen)
G.V. I
Detached bell tower with spire. c.1300, restored 1798 and 1843. Limestone ashlar. 3 stages. Plinth and moulded string course. Multi-stage angle buttresses with north-east polygonal stair turret with ogee headed and trefoil headed slit lights. East doorway with pointed, double chamfered head, hood mould and double plank doors. Cusped ogee headed lancet and clock above. South side with pointed Y traceried window with hood mould and ogee headed lancet above. West and north sides with single ogee headed, cusped lancets. Bell openings on all 4 sides, each a pointed richly moulded opening containing 2 pointed, cusped lights with transom and quatrefoil, hood mould running into string course. Moulded eaves with small grotesque heads and 2 projecting heads on each side. Battlements with ornate corner pinnacles and small cusped flyers. Recessed octagonal spire with 3 tiers of small quatrefoil lucarnes on alternating sides. Finial and weathervane. Interior contains no special features of note.
Listing NGR: TF3886823666
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