belfry
belfree
- n a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building
- n a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung
- Designed by that most fashionable of academic architects, Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, it bore in its belfry a carillon of 43 bells, first in Pennsylvania, second largest in the .
- As the bell looked down on the scene from a temporary belfry, worshipers thronged the temple, and nearby streets echoed to Japanese folk dances.
- The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry.