Campanile (Also Called The Bell Tower)

Imposing square, stone tower in Mediterranean baroque style; of rubble construction with rough-squared quoins. The tower is of five main stages of which the upper 2 are rendered; the lower 3 have a slight taper. Arched openings to the lower stage with two further arched entrances leading off from an external parapetted stair on the second stage of the W face, and an intermediate mezzanine level below; these with recessed boarded doors. There are open-pedimented arches to the second stage on the N and S sides with shallow stone balconys, and arched openings with balustrading to the third stage above. On the E and W sides of this stage are clock faces. The rendered upper stages are slightly recessed and have angle buttresses. The lowest of these is the bell chamber. This has round-headed arches to each face, those on the W and E flanked by Ionic columns. The fifth stage has vertical window openings with external shutters and balutraded sections below. At the top is an octagonal stone cupola with voluted corners and large vertical openings to each face. This has a sloped copper roof with surmounting golden ball finial and weather vane.