`` 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.

That is enough TNT to fill the tower of the Empire State Building ; ;

Grace O ' Malley's Castle Kildamhnait Castle is a 15th century tower house associated with the O ' Malley Clan, who were once a ruling family of Achill.

Two blocks west of the Old Town is the Kuchlbauer Brewery and beer garden featuring the Kuchlbauer Tower, a colorful and unconventional observation tower designed by Viennese architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

One of the highlights of the facade is a tower topped with a cross of four arms oriented to the cardinal directions.

The tower is decorated with monograms of Jesus ( JHS ), Maria ( M with the ducal crown ) and Joseph ( JHP ), made ​​ of ceramic pieces that stand out golden on the green background that covers the facade.

The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.

This is a building with circular tower and doors facing the cardinal directions.

A wet scrubber is basically a reaction tower equipped with a fan that extracts hot smoke stack gases from a power plant into the tower.

Lime or limestone in slurry form is also injected into the tower to mix with the stack gases and combine with the sulfur dioxide present.

The Fernsehturm ( TV tower ) at Alexanderplatz in Mitte is among the tallest structures in the European Union at.

The Funkturm Berlin is a tall lattice radio tower at the fair area, built between 1924 and 1926.

It is the only observation tower which stands on insulators, and has a restaurant and an observation deck above ground, which is reachable by a windowed elevator.

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

Yet there is now little doubt that the hollow-walled broch tower was purely an invention from what is now Scotland, or that even the kinds of pottery found inside them that most resembled south British styles were local hybrid forms.

The only exception is the view from Gate House's tower that looks down St. Mary's Street.

Above the gate there is a tower that rises three stories higher and has a turret-style roof.

The tower is locked during the school year and entering it is a Level 4 offense under the Victoria residence agreement for which the punishment is eviction from residence.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.