[Bell Historians] ] Origin of church towers

[John Harrison]

> Does anyone have any good references on the subject of the origin of
> church towers? They are remarkably neglected by the standard works on
> early Christian/Byzantine/Carolingian architecture. 

Do these help?

1 - On Bells & Bell-Towers: origins and evolutions in Italy and Britain
AD700 to 1200 (The Sixteenth Brixworth Lecture) ; Neil Christie; pp13-30,
Church Archeaology Volumes 5 and 6.

2 - Summoning St Michael - Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire; David
Stocker and Paul Everson; Oxbow books, 2006.  ISBN 184217 123 1.  (I've
only just come across this, not read it, but it includes an interesting
looking chapter: 'Symbols of the Psychopomp; a motivation for tower
building?'

Regards

-- 
John Harrison
Website http://jaharrison.me.uk