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Addleshaw Tower: its slate-covered walls give it the look of a bergfried, a fortified tower. Addleshaw Tower is the free-standing bell tower of Chester Cathedral, in Chester, Cheshire, England. It was designed by George Pace, and built to house the cathedral bells. These had been hung in the cathedral's central tower, and needed overhaul, but ...
The tower is built in concrete, faced with sandstone at its base. It is the first detached bell tower to be built for a cathedral in this country since the Reformation. [43] Between the bell tower and the south transept is a garden in remembrance of the Cheshire Regiment (originally the 22nd Regiment of Foot). [19]
One of the most recent listed buildings is Addleshaw Tower, a free-standing bell-tower of Chester Cathedral, built in 1973–75 in a Modernist style. Unusual listed structures include a scale model of Grosvenor Bridge, the War Memorial , a Cenotaph to Matthew Henry , a tombstone commemorating the soldier Thomas Gould, a sundial , a birdbath and ...
Barnaby's Tower; Bear and Billet ... Castle; Chester Cathedral; Chester city walls; Chester Crown Court; Chester Roman Amphitheatre; Chester Weir; 39 Bridge Street ...
The tower was used as a meeting place by two of the city guilds from the 16th to the 18th century. The phoenix was the emblem of one of the guilds, and is carved on a plaque on the tower. The tower was damaged in the English Civil War during the siege of Chester in 1645. Since the 19th century it has been promoted as a tourist attraction. [1] [38]
Built for Chester Cathedral, this is the first free-standing bell tower to be built by an English cathedral since the 15th century. It is built on a reinforced concrete frame, with a sandstone base and is hung with Bethesda slates. The tower contains a ring of twelve bells, and is the headquarters of the Chester Diocesan Guild of Church Bell ...
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