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Dagnelie, carpenter. Jean-Baptiste Chermanne conducts a brief restoration of the exterior siding and major repairs to the college in 1754. The tower was hit by German artillery August 24, 1914, and the damage was permanently repaired in 1952 by Michot carpenters, father and son. The last restoration dates from 2004, when the chime was automated to play hours and half hours.
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This development made it simultaneously a bell tower and a communal tower, and the only belfry of the
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style, with a tapered base on three levels with sandstone rubble and limestone harp angles. The facing of the four faces is animated by banners and horizontal chains in limestone, increasingly spaced to the summit. These bands sometimes use reused materials such as stone fragments bosses or bearing
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The tower, considered communal property, escaped the confiscation of Church property during the French
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In 1765, the belfry had four large bells. These were recast at the initiative of the
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in quarter-round. The upper level is illuminated four large semicircular openings lined with strip under supervision archivolt. The face is the tower bears the traces of the missing ship. Until mid-height, it has a seating area rubble grossly limited by the trace of crawling of the roof of the
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On the bottom of the south face are sealed the arms of Peter the
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The tower of the old church of Saint-Théodard, built without foundations on slate rock, is undeniably medieval and must date from the time of the greatest development of the city. In the period between 1153 and 1164, during his visits to Thuin, the
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