CLOCHER DE TOURMENTE DE SERVIES

"The Lozère bell towers known as "torment bell towers", concern a cultural and geographical area limited to the fringes of Mount Lozère. Built in hamlets without a church, these buildings appear as an extension of the voice of the church. Their formerly diversified functions (Angelus, knell, call for the municipal school, prevention against hailstorms, sound signal for the attention of people lost in the fog), are now limited to the knell and fires. These steeples are similar to the type of steeple-wall with a single bay with a semicircular arch and are erected on a rectangular base thinned towards the top.Most are built in granite, but also in schist or limestone.Some steeples are equipped with a small lodge for the ringer, arranged in the thickness of the base [...]" Information from the Mérimée base

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