Zvonice, Bell tower in Hrobice, Czech Republic.
Zvonice is a freestanding plastered brick bell tower on a rough stone base, built in 1913 on a slope in the centre of Hrobice. Its smooth white facades have a round-arched doorway reached by three steps, with a red sign above the door, and a round-arched window on the street side flanked by two glazed prints of the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A red metal hipped roof carries an open red wooden belfry with a pyramidal roof, gold cross and finial.
The bell tower was built in 1913 on a slope in the centre of Hrobice and was restored in 1993. Its bell, cast the same year in the Brno workshop of Rudolf Manoušek and Co., has a rim diameter of 0.390 m and a height of 0.330 m, and is rung electrically. In the 1960s the bell was turned. The Ministry of Culture declared the tower a cultural monument of the Czech Republic in 2003.
The tower stands on a slope in the centre of Hrobice, not on a village square. Two glazed coloured prints hang on the street facade beside the window: the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The bell, cast in 1913 by Rudolf Manoušek and Co. of Brno, is rung electrically and was turned in the 1960s.
The tower stands on a slope in the centre of Hrobice, set back from the road on a low stone base; three steps lead up to the glazed door in the front facade. The bell is rung electrically, so the interior is not normally open to visitors. The two framed prints of the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus hang beside the window on the street facade.
The bell in the tower was cast in 1913 by the Brno foundry Rudolf Manoušek a spol., the same year the tower was built. Its rim measures 0.390 m across and it stands 0.330 m tall; it was turned in the 1960s and is now rung electrically. A 15 × 15 mm cavity sits above the rim.
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