bellcot

English

Noun

bellcot (plural bellcots)

1. Alternative spelling of bell cot.
   • 1849 April, “The Free Architectural Exhibition”, in The Ecclesiologist, volume 9, number 71, page 304:

     The belfry, which rises from the eastern gable of the nave, is peculiarly unsuited to its style and position, being of that combination of bellcot (for three bells in two stories) and little spire, which is only tolerable at the west end of a small First or early Middle-Pointed building, but is totally inadequate for the place which it is made to occupy in the present design.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 161:

     They rode out through the north end of the town and they halted before an adobe building with a corrugated tin roof and an empty mud bellcot above it.

   • 2012, H. Thornhill Timmins, Nooks and Corners of Shropshire:

     The exterior is simple, not to say severe, a crazy wooden bellcot above the western gable alone relieving the skyline of the solid old stone-tiled roof, while wooden shutters, all awry, obscure the ancient windows.