Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, an ornamental construction designed to contain one or two bells, and often crowned by a small spire.
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Examples
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In particular, the combination bell-cote/chimney is quite fine.
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It's hard to imagine a typical photograph of Britain's rural scene without a church somewhere in the frame: sometimes an elegant spire, sometimes a solid, castle-like tower, sometimes just a smallish vaguely Gothic box with a bell-cote.
Archbishop celebrates Church's heroes in Country Life magazine 2009
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To the later work belong the set-off of the base, the coigns, the parapet, the east part of the south wall, the framing of most of the windows and doors, and the buttress and bell-cote at the west end.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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It has a double lock and a ring at either end, and inside it is kept a curious bell of wood painted to resemble metal, and said to have been hung in the bell-cote by an unscrupulous official who had caused the real bell to be sold.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The west gable has once been crowned by a bell-cote, and attached to the south-west corner of the chapel are the remains of an arched doorway.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The stair-turret is surmounted by a hexagonal stone cap, which is pierced with a spire-light and crowned by a finial; and there is also a wooden polygonal bell-cote at the north-west corner of the tower.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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Crowning the ridge of the hill is the keep of the castle, resembling a closed fist with the second finger raised, and near it, the bell-cote of the Palais de Justice and the spire of the church break the line of the old houses.
Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923
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Crowning the ridge of the hill is the keep of the castle, resembling a closed fist with the second finger raised, and near it, the bell-cote of the Palais de Justice and the spire of the church break the line of the old houses.
Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 Gordon Home 1923
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Outside the church at the apex of the gable over the chancel arch there is sometimes a small bell-cote, wherein the sanctus or saunce bell once hung.
English Villages 1892
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Note the Edward Hughes memorial window, the old chest under the east window of the transept, the crucifix in the outside west end and the single bell-cote.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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