bellfry

It would be more creative though to say bat-shit slippery, or bat-shit skank, or how perhaps bat-sthit beetle infested, because that retains the visual image of bats flying around inside a bellfry as a substitution for ideas fluttering around an addled mind, and leaving the guano for visualization for another application.

"The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me. Ann Althouse 2009

The monkeybats were the scariest part of the original Wizard of Oz and I am thinking that we've had monkeybats in our bellfry ever since Bush took office and he's wanted that.

Monkeybats in Our Belfry Ellen Beth Gill 2007

The monkeybats were the scariest part of the original Wizard of Oz and I am thinking that we've had monkeybats in our bellfry ever since Bush took office and he's wanted that.

Archive 2007-12-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2007

We saw several factories, visited a lovely church in La Capilla de Guadalupe and the famous neo-gothic church in Arrandas with the bell that was miscalculated, so it is too large to hang in the bellfry and too heavy to ring

Arrandas, Jalisco 2002

The Certosa of Pavia: "Loud the convent bell appalling/From its bellfry calling, calling." raised him to a place above one he would wish to claim.

The Poet of the People 1996

(752-757) erected a bellfry with three bells (campanae) at St. Peter's.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913