bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...

is a tower that contains or is designed to contain one or more bells. Bell tower may also refer to:

Architecture and towers

Styles

Bell tower (wat) Bell tower ( th, หอระฆัง; ) is one category of the Thai architectural structure in a wat for signaling the monks to do their praying ceremony. Type of structure * Wood * Masonry * Reinforced Concrete * Composite Shape * Square * H ...

, in Thai architecture *

Bell tower (Chinese Buddhism) The Bell tower is an important building in Han Chinese Buddhist temples. Together with Drum tower, they are usually placed on both sides of the Hall of Four Heavenly Kings. It is usually on the left side while the Drum tower is usually on the rig ...

, in Han Chinese Buddhist temple design

Individual structures

Bell Tower (Edmonton) Bell Tower is an office tower in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1982. The tower has 31 stories and stands 130 metres (426 ft) tall. It was formerly known as the Canadian Commercial Bank Tow ...

, an office tower in Edmonton, Canada * Bell tower (Königsberg), Germany * Bell Tower (Pennsylvania Railroad), Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, US * Bell Tower (University of Portland), Oregon, US *

Bell Tower of Xi'an The Bell Tower of Xi'an (), built in 1384 during the early Ming Dynasty, is a symbol of the city of Xi'an and one of the grandest of its kind in China. The Bell Tower also contains several large bronze-cast bells from the Tang dynasty, Tang Dyn ...

, a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Xi'an, China *

Gulou and Zhonglou (Beijing) The Drum Tower of Beijing, or Gulou (), is situated at the northern end of the central axis of the Inner City to the north of Di'anmen Street. Originally built for musical reasons, it was later used to announce the time and is now a tourist at ...

, a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Beijing, China *

Ivan the Great Bell Tower The Ivan the Great Bell Tower (russian: Колокольня Иван Великий, ''Kolokol'nya Ivan Velikiy'') is a church tower inside the Moscow Kremlin complex. With a total height of , it is the tallest tower and structure of the Kreml ...

in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia * Swan Bells, a campanile in Perth, Western Australia * Bell Tower, also known as

Kissing Couple Kissing Couple is a 5,815-foot-elevation (1,772-meter) sandstone pillar located in Colorado National Monument, in Mesa County of western Colorado, United States. This iconic 400-foot-high tower is situated on the west side of Monument Canyon, 1.5 ...

, in Colorado, US

Fiction

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The Bell-Tower ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

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Piazza Tales ''The Piazza Tales'' is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the s ...

Film and TV

*''Jonggak'' (The Bell Tower, subtitled Missing another Dawn), Korean film with

Heo Jang-kang Heo Jang-gang (May 9, 1925 – September 21, 1975) was a South Korean actor, one of the representative actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He mainly took supporting roles such as villains or comical characters. He died of a heart attack after playing ...

*''The Bell Tower'', 1953 TV episode

Foreign Intrigue ''Foreign Intrigue'' (also known as ''Foreign Assignment'') is a syndicated espionage drama television series produced in Europe by Sheldon Reynolds. The 30-minute series ran for four seasons from 1951 to 1955, producing 156 episodes. It was th ...

*''The Bell Tower'', episode of

Heidi (2007 TV series) ''Heidi'' is a computer animated children's television series, based indirectly on the 1881 novel ''Heidi'' by Johanna Spyri. The original 2007 television series was a Swiss-French-Italian-Australian co-production in 27 episodes of 26 minutes. ...

Music

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The Bell Tower ''The Bell Tower'' is a chamber opera in one act by Ernst Krenek, his Op. 153. The English libretto by the composer was inspired by the short story by Herman Melville (collected in '' The Piazza Tales''), the events only mysteriously hinted at ...

'', a chamber opera by Ernst Krenek after Melville's story *

Bell Tower (band) Bell Tower was a four-piece alternative rock/garage rock band from Calgary, Alberta, active from 2009 to 2017. Biography The band started in early 2009, with drummer Ross Watson and vocalist/guitarist Thomas Englund jamming in Englund's baseme ...

, Canadian alternative rock *

The Belltower The was an American alternative rock band from New York City often associated with the shoegazing scene, with members who later joined Luna and Fountains of Wayne. History The band was formed by singers/guitarists Britta Phillips and Jody Port ...