belfried

The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Plain -- set deep in trees, domed, belfried, full of gardens and fountains and public places -- which owed their independence to being too near a pair of rival states to be worth either's conquering.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

They may see the little cottages and the great houses made famous by those who have passed over their thresholds; they may linger in the old burial ground and trace out the epitaphs under the portico of the golden-belfried church.

The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

The fear of earthquake has caused it to be constructed almost entirely of wood, including even its double-belfried cathedral.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Abul Malek and his sons returned alone to their mountains, but when they reined in at the door of their castle the father spat venomously at the belfried roof of the monastery beneath and vowed that he would yet work his will upon it.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin's voice drowned them.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

On a hill beyond the stream we mark a large white-belfried building, relieved against a dark background of wide-stretching timber-land.

Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858

The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.

Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

A person who has never seen the picture that was now under my eye, who had read of a place consecrated by the devotion of ages, towards which the tide of human superstition had flowed for twelve centuries, might imagine that St. Patrick's Purgatory, secluded in its sacred island, would have all the venerable and gothic accompaniments of olden time; and its ivied towers and belfried steeples, its carved windows, and cloistered arches, its long dark aisles and fretted vaults would have risen out of the water, rivalling Iona or Lindisfarn; but nothing of the sort was to be seen.

The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831