belfry
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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
In the town of La Paz in Abra, a century-old Christian church was damaged, with parts of its belfry collapsing and some walls cracked, littering the church’s grassy yard with debris, officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 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
It was three o’clock; the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
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