Talk:Belfry
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[edit]?? 'Often they are attached to Christian Churches.'
I don't agree with this sentence. All belfries I know are not attached to any Christian building at all. Donar Reiskoffer 12:50, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Vote on merger
[edit]- Support looks reasonable, both articles are very short Arnoutf 12:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I've merged the article into bell tower. Coffee 20:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Split out
[edit]The term belfry is often used to refer to part of a bell tower or steeple, or even to a building that isn't a tower at all. Therefore I have undone the old merge. Mangoe (talk) 14:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Requested move 9 September 2024
[edit]- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 | It was proposed in this section that Belfry (architecture) be renamed and moved to Belfry.
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Belfry (architecture) → Belfry – It is the primary topic, see Talk:Belfry#Requested move 6 September 2024 Traumnovelle (talk) 19:14, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
[edit]There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Belfry which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 21:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Almost feels like a non sequitur
[edit]"Merriam-Webster explains the transformation by the fact that the initial word was later used for different types of towers and protective buildings, many containing bells. People associated the belfrey with bells, and by dissimilation or by association the word was successively spelled bellfrey, belfrey, and finally belfry."
None of the sentences prior to this part featured the word belfrey, and none of the variations in the referenced Merriam-Webster dictionary are so spelled. To me the second sentence read as if belfrey was suddenly thrown out there, and I was confused as to from where it came. ~2026-41334-72 (talk) 02:18, 24 July 2026 (UTC)