clocher

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But down south, in French rugby's heartlands l'esprit de clocher - literally 'the spirit of the belltower' - is a thing.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

Taken together with the fleches of the facade, this clocher of Coutances forms a group such as one very seldom sees.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

There is no regularly completed tower to St. Siffrein, but a still unachieved tenth-century clocher in embryo attaches itself on the south.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

What would correspond to the cathedrals of Noyon and Soissons and the old clocher and fleche of Chartres is lost.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Its cathedral of brick is of the fourteenth century, with a clocher dating from 1515, and a smaller tower, embracing a jacquemart, of the sixteenth century.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)