Bell roof

A bell roof (bell-shaped roof, ogee roof,^[1] Philibert de l'Orme roof) is a roof form resembling the shape of a bell.^[2]

Shapes

Bell roofs may be round, multi-sided or square. A similar-sounding feature added to other roof forms at the eaves or walls^[3] is bell-cast, sprocketed^[4] or flared^[2] eaves, the roof flairs upward resembling the common shape of the bottom of a bell.

Gallery

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  A classic, round bell roof on the round tower of Aspen Community Church in the USA
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  A metal bell roof on the Almond A. White House in the United States
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  A multi-sided bell roof on the tower of the Wendish-German double church in Germany
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  A square bell roof in France
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  Not bell roofs but roofs with bell-cast eaves.

See also

• Roof pitch
• Bochka roof