Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Belfry
BELL free
Plural: belfries

Part of a bell tower or steeple in which bells are housed

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

See also bell gable

In Japanese Buddhist temples, the building or tower holding the large bonsho bell is a shoro.

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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
  
  
• St. Joseph University Church

Other examples:

• Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
  
• Church of St. Mary (Kosciol Mariacki), Cracow, Poland
  
  
• Bell Tower, Kizhi, Russia

• Hasedera Buddhist Temple, Kamakura, Japan