The next set of stairs continues up to the level above, where the clock works reside. The rope for pealing the bell (ringing it by swinging the whole bell) passes up through the floor we are standing on and through the ceiling above. The wooden box hanging from the ceiling is where the clock pendulum once swung. Sprinklers were added to the Meetinghouse in the 1960s and we see the piping and heads all along the way up. A modern smoke detector has been added on the floor joist above us.