Campanile (Also Called The Bell Tower) is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Bell tower.
Campanile (Also Called The Bell Tower)
- WRENN ID
- low-quoin-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- Bell tower
- Address
- Campanile (Also Called The Bell Tower), Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 371
- Coordinates
- 52.91319, -4.09848
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Campanile, also known as The Bell Tower, is an impressive square stone tower built in the Mediterranean baroque style. It features rubble construction with rough-squared quoins and consists of five main stages, with the upper two stages rendered and the lower three stages having a slight taper. The lower stage has arched openings, and there are two additional arched entrances accessed from an external parapetted stair on the western face, along with an intermediate mezzanine level below. These entrances have recessed boarded doors.
On the north and south sides of the second stage, there are open-pedimented arches with shallow stone balconies, while the third stage above features arched openings with balustrading. Clock faces are present on the east and west sides of this stage. The rendered upper stages are slightly recessed and supported by angle buttresses, with the lowest of these being the bell chamber. This chamber has round-headed arches on each face, with the western and eastern arches flanked by Ionic columns.
The fifth stage has vertical window openings with external shutters and balustraded sections below. At the top of the tower is an octagonal stone cupola with voluted corners and large vertical openings on each face. This cupola is topped with a sloped copper roof, a golden ball finial, and a weather vane.
Local climate
Campanile (Also Called The Bell Tower) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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