`` There's a tower and a steeple on the church a million feet high.

Quickening his steps, John entered the vast church and climbed the tower steps to the bells.

To them he could have been the broken bell in the church tower which rang before and after Mass, and at noon, and at six each evening -- its tone, repetitive, monotonous, never breaking the boredom of the streets.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The church originally had a central tower and ( probably ) a spire.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

" An hour later Tallard, the Elector, and Marsin climbed Blenheim's church tower to finalise their plans.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

Traditional church buildings are often in the shape of a cross and frequently have a tower or dome.

Another common feature is the spire, a tall tower on the " west " end of the church or over the crossing.

The crusaders began to refurnish the church in a Romanesque style and added a bell tower.

The eastern parts of the town surrendered at midday of 13 April ; a white flag was raised in the tower of the Kallio church.

In 1240 a church and tower was reconstructed on the site of the Church of St. Mobhi in the monastery.

Stone from the cove was also used to construct the nearby church of St Buryan, whose 92 foot granite tower is an imposing local landmark often used as a line of sight by fishermen coming into port.

The church tower is that of Saint Peter's Church.

The church is built with a nave, two aisles, a transept and a tower.

The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the " Vow of Louis XIII ", one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques ( 14th and 15th centuries ), dedicated to Saint James of Compostela, the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal tower, the base of which is in Romanesque style, while the upper levels, built later, are in Gothic style.

Liberation in 1945 brought back the Protestant bishop and the church bells, and the Nazi style eagle was taken down from the tower.

The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.

In 1846, St James church was considerably repaired, a steeple replacing the old tower.

* When combined with a zoom, a tracking shot can become a dolly zoom, famously used to create a sense of vertigo in the church tower scenes in Hitchcock's Vertigo ( 1958 ).

Molde Cathedral ( orange roof on far right ) with its freestanding bell tower replaces the church that was destroyed during World War II The town gained formal trading rights in 1614.

Until then the church had escaped undamaged, but in the final sortie a firebomb got stuck high up in the tower, and beautiful wooden church was obliterated by fire.

The present church was built in the 1700s and the graveyard contains memorials to the victims of two of Achill's greatest tragedies, the Kirchintilloch Fire ( 1937 ) and the Clew Bay Drowning ( 1894 ).

The church contains some unique alabaster effigies, church monuments and unique medieval wood carving, such as the Tree of Jesse.

This was later demolished in 1926-27 to allow the construction of the current church, though this still contains the steeple from the 17th century reconstruction.

I know nothing of your church ; at the very least it contains people who will, I fear, overturn the whole system and drive the princes into using force to restrain good men and bad alike.

The church was built in 1708 in Baroque style and contains some curious paintings by local artists.

( This section contains Matthew 16: 13 – 19, in which Simon, newly renamed Peter, ( πέτρος, petros, meaning " stone "), calls Jesus " the Christ, the son of the living God ", and Jesus states that on this " bedrock " ( πέτρα, petra ) he will build his church — the passage forms the foundation for the papacy's claim of authority ).

Since Rome is the preeminent episcopal see of the Church, it contains the central government of the church, including various agencies essential to administration.

The church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome contains a Baroque sculpture of Habakkuk by the 17th-century artist Bernini.

Every altar in every Orthodox church contains relics, usually of martyrs.

St Mary's Church contains a memorial to the men of who lost their lives in HMS Monmouth, which was sunk with all hands on 1 November 1914, by German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast at the Battle of Coronel ; the church hosts an annual service in remembrance.

* The old parish church of St. Ulrich is a good example of the Transition style of the 13th century, and contains a valuable antiquarian collection.

The Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck () contains the wooden statue of St. Paul the Apostle carved in 1657 by Melchiorre Gafà, brother of Lorenzo Gafà who renovated the church in 1680.

The church contains two first-class relics, the right wrist-bone of St. Paul and part of the column on which he was beheaded in Rome.

Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the most well-known churches ever built, Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris ; that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra ( official chair ) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois.

The abbey church contains some fine examples of cadaver tombs.

The town contains a fine parish church and a considerable number of listed buildings.

The church of Santa Maria contains outstanding works of art, and there are murals dating from the Romanesque period to the Gothic.

Fourteen of England's cathedrals are of smaller dimensions, while only Westminster Abbey contains more medieval church monuments.

The church contains a notable 15th-century painted pulpit donated by Edward IV.

The church contains a baptistry heated by hypocausts.

It also contains a Prairie Village with local landmark homes and other buildings, including a Pony Express station and pioneer church among many others.

It possesses a Kurhaus, fifteen bathing-establishments, a parish church in late Gothic style, and a town-hall, which contains archives.

* Lazarevskoye, 59 km from the city center, contains a delphinarium, an old church ( 1903 ), and a new church ( 1999 ).