belfry

The chapel, whose unusual design includes three spires, two steeples, a belfry and separate sanctuaries for Catholics and Protestants, has been locked and left to decay since being damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

The church is scarred by rockets and shells, but the golden dome above its blasted belfry still gleams in the fading autumn light.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

The challenges of making that happen, though, become clear when climbing the confined, 334-step stairwell that winds up to the belfry.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

Jefferson, 48, were responding to a call Tuesday afternoon about a suspicious man near Memorial Hall, the oldest building on campus, known for its belfry and bell.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022

As twilight edged from grey to purple there was a noise in the spire, like a fluttering of heavy velvet, and Silas left his resting place in the belfry and clambered headfirst down the spire.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Others copper-covered belfries include the serpentine spire of Our Saviour’s Church, those of the downtown Renaissance Rosenborg Castle, and the tower of the Christiansborg Palace which houses the Danish parliament.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

In the intervening years, however, those churches — whose belfries are famously appreciated by the winged mammals — had been illuminated with floodlights.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Yet Irish bat biologist Emma Teeling thinks the answer can be found among bats in the storybook belfries of the Gothic cathedrals in Brittany, France.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019

It would be the song of a species of bird from a different continent, some species that nested in cathedral belfries or windmills, which, to my kind of bird, would be like, Well, la-di-da.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2013

Thirty-two belfries tolled a dirge at six in the afternoon.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez