Crossword clues for bell tower
Wiktionary
alt. A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry n. A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry
WordNet
n. a tower that supports or shelters a bell
Wikipedia
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells, even if it has none. In the European tradition, such a tower most commonly serves as part of a church and contains church bells. Modern bell towers often contain carillons.
The Italian term campanile (; ), deriving from the word campana meaning "bell", is synonymous with bell tower; in English it tends to be used to refer to freestanding bell towers.
A bell tower may also be called a belfry, though this term may also refer to the substructure that houses the bells rather than the tower or other enclosing structure as a whole.
Old bell towers may be kept for their historic or iconic value, though in countries with a strong campanological tradition they often continue to serve their original purposes as well.
Bell towers are common in China and neighbouring countries, where they may appear both as part of a temple complex and as an independent civic building. The tallest free-standing bell tower in the world, approximately 110 m, is the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, located at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Bell Tower is an office tower in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1982. The tower comprises 31 storeys, and stands 130 metres (426 ft) tall. It was formerly known as the Canadian Commercial Bank Tower, was the headquarters of the Canadian Commercial Bank before that bank failed in 1985. Current tenants include Bell Canada, Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation, and Avison Young Real Estate.
A bell tower is a tower containing one or more bells.
Bell tower may also refer to:
Bell Tower is a four-piece alternative rock/garage rock band from Calgary, Alberta.Winners of the 2009 MRU Battle Royale. Bell Tower is best known for their opening performance with Hot Hot Heat in 2010.
HOOK Tower is a closed interlocking tower on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.
Usage examples of "bell tower".
But nobody in his right mind would climb to the top of a University bell tower to take potshots with a scopesighted rifle at passersby, either, her mind retorted, or murder perfectly innocent, semiretired rock'n'roll stars just to say they'd done it, or do any of the other gruesome things that had made the headlines within her memory.
Along toward dusk, a bell rang, and the Sisters left the buildings in procession, single file, winding through the woods toward a tall lamplit building with an arrangement of bell tower and chapel to one side.
The sound that echoed through the bell tower was so slight that Midnight feared for a moment that she'd only imagined it.
She darted out again, still clutching the bedding to her chest, but he wasn't in the bell tower or the churchyard, and he could not possibly have made it to the house.
The bell tower looks like the one Rapunzel was imprisoned in, and Rosemund, bending over her embroidery, with her dark hair and white cap and red cheeks, looks for all the world like Snow White.
There's a Force 7 blowing, driving the fire up to and into the gorge, maybe it's catching the bell tower, ringing the bell of its own accord?
Some of the towers had fallen down and others looked unsafe, but they climbed the bell tower (the bells were gone) and the rookery (the birds were gone).
There was a covered bridge between the armory and the main keep, and another that went from the fourth floor of the bell tower to the second floor of the rookery, but no matter how carefully she shaped them, they would not hold together.
The bell tower of an old Spanish church rises up above the coconut palms not far away, carved from blocks of volcanic tuff that are beginning to glow in the lambency of another damn mind-blowing tropical sunset.
Smoke drifted out of the cover of wood, but those streamers could not conceal the massive block of stone that marked the bell tower, fully three stories tall.
Immediately a deep, ringing sound rolled through the cavern, like the tolling of a giant bell might sound to someone who stood in the bell tower directly below it.