![]() ![]() The pump, in turn, was replaced by a water fountain in 1874. The grieving King Edward erected a memorial cross at each place the procession stopped while bringing the queen for burial at Westminster Abbey.įor centuries the St Albans ' Eleanor Cross' stood outside the Abbey entrance, but in 1703 the town government, in their infinite wisdom, pulled down the cross and replaced it with a town pump. Here, in 1290, the funeral procession of Queen Eleanor, wife of Edward I, rested on its journey to London. The tower stands near Waxhouse Gate entrance to the medieval Abbey of St Albans. Then there is the roof, where the Napoleonic shutter telegraph was used. The original 14th-century bell hangs on the 4th floor, as it has done for some 700 years. ![]() The clock was designed by Lord Grimthorpe, who also designed the mechanism for the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (erroneously called Big Ben, which is actually the hour bell). On the 3rd floor is the large Victorian clock that replaced the earlier mechanism when the tower was restored in 1866. The second floor was where the clock keeper and his family lived from 1412-1866. There are 5 floors within the tower the bottom floor was let as a shop premises, with the shopkeeper's residence above. Instead, Sir Gilbert Scott was brought in to oversee the restoration, and subsequent restoration work in the 21st century has kept it in reasonable condition. The tower was not maintained after the war and by the 1860s it was threatened with demolition. ![]()
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