Sentence:  The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four <WSD>fanes</WSD> mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the <WSD>fanes</WSD>, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A weathercock, a weather vane.