Renaissance bell tower in Strážky

The Renaissance bell tower together with the late Gothic church of St. Anne and the Renaissance manor house form an important complex of National Cultural Monuments. The bell tower is a typical representative of its kind, it has a rich ornamental decoration in the technique of inverted sgraffito, which has been preserved in torsos. The building is brick, block on a square plan, built at the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century, the sgraffito decoration dates back to 1629. The decoration was executed by a master with the initials H. B., which he left in the inscription Soli deo HB 1629 Gloria. The inscription is located on the south side of the bell tower above a trio of sound windows and a band of rich tracery decoration. On the corners the bell tower is decorated with bossage , the labels on the attic are more subtle than in Spišská Bela and are decorated with sgraffito. On the first floor level, the bell tower is entered by a wooden staircase through a stone portal in the axis of the first window on the right. On the same axis, there is another entrance on the ground floor - through a simple stone portal with a curved arch. Ulrich Meterer was the builder of the bell tower, which stands in the grounds of St. Anne's Church. Source: www.spisskabela.sk