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Tech/Engineering / church architecture | | French term or phrase: clocher-mur | | I know exactly what this IS (the extended wall of a church that has openings through it in which hang the bell or bells, so very common in rural France and indeed mainland Europe in general) --- but can anyone please tell me if there is a proper English architectural term for this? |
|  Tony MKudoZ activityQuestions: 278 (none open) ( 24 closed without grading) Answers: 10019
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| | bell wall | Explanation:
Good description in Termium:
Domaine(s)
– Architectural Design
Domaine(s)
– Conception architecturale
bell wall Source
PROPOSITION
clocher-mur Source
CORRECT, MASC
OBS – Bell wall: as
opposed to bell tower
or bell turret. Source
DEF – Clocher formé
par un mur percé de
baies dans lesquelles
sont placées les
cloches. Source
OBS – Pluriel : des
clochers-murs
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Note added at 2002-12-18 10:45:43 (GMT)
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California Missions, Footsteps of History, California history - [ Traduire cette page ]
... replaced. Instead a bell wall (campanario) was built with six bells. ... deserted. The church was used by the city from 1862 until 1908. ...
www.usacitiesonline.com/footstepsofhistory/californiamissio... casangabrielcamissions.htm -
Translator\'s Notebook: The Mission Church and Its Furnishings - [ Traduire cette page ]
... tower a pierced bell-wall (San Diego or San Gabriel), campanario torre espadaña
*. *Espadaña should NOT be used to describe the gable of a church unless that ...
www.ca-missions.org/neuerburg2.html - 14k
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Note added at 2002-12-18 10:48:20 (GMT)
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différent d\'un clocher ou beffroi (belfry ou belfrey), les cloches ne sont pas en haut d\'une tour mais dans des ouvertures d\'un mur (comme dans certaines missions espagnoles) |
| Selected response from:
Francis MARC
Local time: 11:02
| Grading comment Many thanks, Francis, your references are very helpful and explanation very pertinent.
Thanks to the other answerers too!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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10 mins confidence:  belfrey
Explanation:
father-in-law is an architect!
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Note added at 2002-12-18 10:42:45 (GMT)
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he says that it\'s not that common in England; apparently only poor churches who couldn\'t afford a tower had a belfrey
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Note added at 2002-12-18 10:44:43 (GMT)
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he says that it\'s not that common in England; apparently only poor churches who couldn\'t afford a tower had a belfrey
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15 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 bell wall
Explanation:
Good description in Termium:
Domaine(s)
– Architectural Design
Domaine(s)
– Conception architecturale
bell wall Source
PROPOSITION
clocher-mur Source
CORRECT, MASC
OBS – Bell wall: as
opposed to bell tower
or bell turret. Source
DEF – Clocher formé
par un mur percé de
baies dans lesquelles
sont placées les
cloches. Source
OBS – Pluriel : des
clochers-murs
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Note added at 2002-12-18 10:45:43 (GMT)
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California Missions, Footsteps of History, California history - [ Traduire cette page ]
... replaced. Instead a bell wall (campanario) was built with six bells. ... deserted. The church was used by the city from 1862 until 1908. ...
www.usacitiesonline.com/footstepsofhistory/californiamissio... casangabrielcamissions.htm -
Translator\'s Notebook: The Mission Church and Its Furnishings - [ Traduire cette page ]
... tower a pierced bell-wall (San Diego or San Gabriel), campanario torre espadaña
*. *Espadaña should NOT be used to describe the gable of a church unless that ...
www.ca-missions.org/neuerburg2.html - 14k
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Note added at 2002-12-18 10:48:20 (GMT)
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différent d\'un clocher ou beffroi (belfry ou belfrey), les cloches ne sont pas en haut d\'une tour mais dans des ouvertures d\'un mur (comme dans certaines missions espagnoles)
| | | Grading comment Many thanks, Francis, your references are very helpful and explanation very pertinent.
Thanks to the other answerers too! |
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