Definition of bell tower
: a tower that supports or shelters a bell
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The bell tower outside sounded 43 times as worshippers walked in for Sunday-morning services, once for each year Dr. McKinney was pastor at the church, long a focal point of African-American life in Seattle.
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In her 1948 masterpiece, Ms. Arango, a Medellín native, rendered her grotesque figures, both priestly and demonic, spiraling downward along a church bell tower set amid a city inflamed.
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One example is the ragged edge of the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco in a 1745 Canaletto that records the bell tower's appearance after a lightning strike, and before it was repaired.
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He's seen everybody from the bell tower of Notre Dame.
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When the fire was over, the only remaining parts of the church were the stone walls, a Civil War memorial in the narthex and the bell tower.
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The couple explained that their church's bell tower had fallen during the quake, forcing the cancellation of the service.
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With its ancient stones, its bell tower and war memorial, the village is picture perfect.
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The Butler County facility is only the latest feature of an expansion under Keating that put pictures of the hospital’s signature bell tower in new facilities as far from its Mount Auburn home as Montgomery and Northern Kentucky.
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First Known Use of bell tower
1596
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