Showing posts with label belfry. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

BELFRY

The upper part of the tower or steeple of a church, for the reception of the bells; or a detached tower containing bells. The term is sometimes applied to the timber frame by which the bells are supported; also to the room or loft in the tower of a church, from which the bells are rung.

BELFRY OF ST. PETER AND PAUL CHURCH
Picture taken from : http://www.123rf.com/photo_7535454_hamina-finland-belfry-of-st-peter-and-paul-church-19-c.html


Acknowledgement: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02394d.htm

CHURCH ARCHITECTURE

Architecture can be defined as the art or science of designing, making and building buildings. Church architecture can be said to be the art of making churches for the worship of Christians. Church architecture is a complex discipline and consists building of the aisle, apse, altar, belfry, buttress, chancel, chapel, gallery, nave, pew, pulpit, spandrels, vault among the other structures


Picture taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz_Cathedral


Acknowledgement: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/architecture
.                             http://www.norwich-churches.org/Glossary/glossary.shtm