Bell tower in Neprobylice, Bell tower in Neprobylice, Czech Republic.
The Bell Tower in Neprobylice is a wooden bell tower from 1896 standing on a hexagonal sandstone base on the village green, on the site of an earlier tower from the second half of the 15th century. Above the base rises an open braced timber frame with a bell storey, topped by a hipped roof covered in shingles. Two Renaissance tombstones are set into the eastern wall of the base.
The wooden bell tower was built in 1896 as a replica of an earlier tower from the second half of the 15th century, demolished that year because it was in a state of disrepair. It stands on the village green, on the site of the former cemetery. In 1967 it was entered in the Central List of Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic.
The three bells are still hung in the open bell chamber and visible from outside: Václav, cast in 1595 by Brikcí z Cimperka, Jindřich from 1510 by Bartoloměj Berounský, and the smallest, Marie, from the 15th century. The sandstone base holds two Renaissance tombstones moved here from the demolished Church of the Holy Spirit.
The wooden bell tower stands on the village green (náves), on the site of the former cemetery, in Neprobylice in the Kladno District. It is a free-standing structure visible from the surrounding paths; the three bells hang in the open bell stage and can be seen from outside.
Two Renaissance tombstones are set into the eastern wall of the sandstone base: a red marble relief from 1602 showing Václav Pětipeský of Chýše and Egerberk as an armoured knight with his helmet removed, and a 1604 stone for Mandalena of Adlar, wife of Odolen Pětipeský, now illegible. Both were moved here from the Church of the Holy Spirit, demolished in 1741.
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