bell-hūs

bell-hūs, n.n: bell tower, belfry. (BELL-HOOS / ˈbɛl-ˌhuːs)

Medieval manuscript illustration of three tonsured priests standing with a bishop, wearing a mitre, who gestures to a church with two bells in the belfry.
Missal; England (Cambridge?), c. 1320; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.107, f. 216r. [ica.themorgan.org]

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