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

A terrifying symbol of Mayon’s deadly fury is the belfry of a 16th-century Franciscan stone church which protrudes from the ground.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

But it is the nickname of the biggest bell in the belfry that draws the most name recognition: Big Ben.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

One of those, which went unfulfilled, was what he called “a duet with a bat who lives in the belfry of the Wesleyan Memorial Chapel.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

For some time after their visit to the church belfry it had been impossible to arrange meetings.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

There were beds ringing, docks smiting in belfries, standards floating—until the whole air above them seemed to be alive.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White