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 to ...

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 (; ) is one category of the Thai architectural structure in a wat A wat (, ; , ; , ; ; , ) is a type of Buddhist and Hindu temple in Cambodia, Laos, East Shan State (Myanmar), Yunnan (China), the Southern Province of Sri Lan ...

, in Thai architecture * Bell tower (Chinese Buddhism), in Han Chinese Buddhist temple design

Individual structures

* Bell Tower (Edmonton), 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. The tow ...

, 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 att ...

, a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Beijing, China * Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia *

Swan Bells The Swan Bells are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built copper and glass campanile in Perth, Western Australia. The tower is commonly known as The Bell Tower or the Swan Bell Tower. Taking their name from the Swan River, which their ...

, a campanile in Perth, Western Australia * Bell Tower, also known as Kissing Couple, in Colorado, US * The Bell Tower or Campanile, Portmeirion, Wales

Fiction

*'' The Bell-Tower'', one of Herman Melville's '' Piazza Tales'' * Bell Tower, a location in the games ''

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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

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*''The Bell Tower'', episode of Heidi (2007 TV series) * The Bell Tower, an episode of the American television series Outer Banks

Media outlets

* The Bell Tower Times, Australian media company

Music

*'' The Bell Tower'', a chamber opera by Ernst Krenek after Melville's story * Bell Tower (band), Canadian alternative rock * The Belltower, American alternative rock group