A church has been on the site since the early thirteenth century, but the tower (c.1320) is believed to be from the second version of the building. The tower is all that remains of All Hallows Staining. I stumbled across this bell only recently. Paul’s you get, not one, but two important bells. I thought I’d start off with another of London’s most popular buildings: St. I’ve listed a few of my favourites below. “There’s more?” I hear you cry disbelievingly into your computer/phone screen (some in wonder, probably many others in despair). Instead of replacing the bell again, the powers that be decided to just turn Big Ben by a quarter and install a slightly lighter hammer so that less force was administered to a non-broken part of the bell! A small square was also cut into the bell to prevent the crack getting any bigger.īig Ben isn’t London’s only fascinating bell. When Big Ben arrived at Westminster in 1858 to be installed in the Elizabeth Tower (then known simply as the Clock Tower), it was slightly too wide to fit vertically, so had to be winched up, horizontally, over the course of 30 painstaking hours.įunnily enough, that crack in the bell which I mentioned at the beginning was never fixed.
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