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
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
The church’s belfry housed New York’s Liberty Bell, which tolled to mark the country’s birth in 1776 and has rung in remembrance of the 9/11 terror attacks.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2022
One of those, which went unfulfilled, was what he called “a duet with a bat who lives in the belfry of the Wesleyan Memorial Chapel.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021
The smashed meeting house with its tiny wooden belfry was before him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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