Wiktionary
n. A bell (often more than one) belonging to a church, usually housed in a tower or steeple, customarily rung before church services or for other occasions such as weddings.
WordNet
n. a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church); "church bells were ringing all over town"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "church bell".
He said he was sure everybody would appreciate the spirit of neighbourly charity with which I was acting, and even went so far as to say that the tenor of my bell chimed so sweetly with the bass of the church bell that he was always delighted to hear it.
Any bell sounds like a church bell even though the fire-station bell has a different sound and you can't mistake it, but it's still a bell.
Margit Island, and Reynolds passed through its frosted swing doors just as a nearby church bell, muffled and faint through the curtaining snow, struck the hour of eight o'clock.
As each was thinking within himself that the driver must have lost his way, a church bell, close at hand, struck the hour of midnight, and the carriage stopped.
The signal, should the Space Wanderer arrive, was for Redwine to ring the church bell madly.
The next morning, though it was only a Wednesday, all of Paris was awakened by the triumphant clangor of every church bell in the city.
With only the church bell to strike the hour, Nash settled into his favourite seat by the window and closed his eyes.