Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Belfry
BELL free

A room at or near the top of a tower which contains bells and their supporting timbers; the bell tower itself

Old French: "berfrei" = a tower. Not connected with "bell"

See also bell gable

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Plymouth Methodist Church / Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
  
  
• Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church

• Church of the Good Shepherd
  
  
• St. Anthony's RC Church
  
  
• Corpus Christi RC Church

Other examples:

• Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands