THE BELL CHAMBER
This chamber - the seventh and final one that can be visited - has certain articles on display related to the Giralda's primal role - that of belfry, which is equipped with four "coruses" or revolving bells and hammers.
At the back a metal frame is displayed, which was constructed in the sixties, and recently replaces by a wooden one - as used in times past; the cross-section of a bell hangs from it and an old clapper, with other held up and leaning on their sides.
IN the middle there is a bell on a pedestal that does not belong to the Giralda but to the roof of the High Altar; the period is Gothic - dating from 1509 and its autor was Cristóbal Cabrera.
In the foreground are the remains of the San Cristóbal bell which was damaged on 14^th February 1981. Amongst the four fragments can be found the semlting date - 1663 - the image of its dedication, and the name of ist author Juan Gerardo, who elaborated it in Seville. It weights 19 hundred weight 55 pounds.