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

There’s the formidable Castle of the Counts, the 15th-century Great Butchers’ Hall, the UNESCO-listed belfry lording over it all.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022

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

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

From the belfry to the top of the tower it was another thirty feet of climbing.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

Bannerets, crucifixes, gargoyles, water-spouts, weather-cocks, spires and belfries crowded the angled roofs—roofs going this way and that, sometimes of red tile, sometimes of mossy stone, sometimes of slate.

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