The Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project

Katherine McKay Belk Bell Tower

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Katherine McKay Belk Bell Tower, St. Andrews Presbyterian College

Institution Name: St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Original/Historic Place Name: Katherine McKay Belk Bell Tower
Location on Campus: campus causewalk
Date(s) of Construction:

1978	original construction Odell, Jr., A. G. Odell Associates, Inc.

Designer: A. G. Odell Jr. & Associates
Type of Place: Individual building
Style: Modern/post-WWII (Glossary)
Significance: architecture, culture, landscape
Narrative: see below
References: see below

Materials:

Foundation: concrete

Walls: concrete

Roof:

Function:

ca. 1978-present (2006)	other (campus clock)
ca. 1978-present (2006)	bell tower

Narrative:
The College's Bell Tower sits at the literal center of the campus. In the middle of the quarter mile long causewalk spanning Lake Ansley C. Moore, the almost seventy-foot-tall tower holds a full carillon with both manual and automated features. Since its construction the tower has been an icon of the College, reflecting its Presbyterian heritage.

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