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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open ...
The White Tower seen from the southeast. To the fore is the projection housing the apse of St John's Chapel. The White Tower is a former royal residence, the old keep, at the Tower of London in England. It was built by William the Conqueror during the early 1080s, and subsequently extended. The White Tower was the castle's strongest point ...
The Tower of London liberty was dissolved in 1894, [18] and the parish was absorbed by St Botolph without Aldgate in 1901. [17] The Chapel is also the regimental church of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, whose connections with the Tower of London go back the 1685 raising of the Royal Fusiliers to guard the Tower and the Artillery train kept ...
Byward Tower is a barbican (defensive gatehouse) of the Tower of London. Byward Tower was built in the 13th century by Henry III , on the inward bank of the moat. It consists of two towers connected by an upper arcade, under which persons wishing to visit (or storm) the Tower of London from the southwest would pass.
The position was medieval in origin, and ended in 1838 with the creation of the London Public Record Office. In the 16th century the distinction was made between Chancery Rolls from the reign of Richard III onwards, which were under the direct control of the Master of the Rolls , and earlier Rolls that were kept in the Tower of London , with a ...
The Yeomen Warders provided the permanent garrison of the Tower, but the Constable of the Tower could call upon the men of the Tower Hamlets to supplement them when necessary. The Tower Hamlets was an area significantly larger than the modern London Borough of the same name , which owed military service to the Constable in his ex officio role ...
Although a treasury had been located in the Tower of London from the earliest times (as in the sub-crypt of St John's Chapel in the White Tower), from 1255 there was a separate Jewel House for state crowns and regalia, though not older crowns and regalia, in the grounds of Westminster Abbey. This Jewel House stood by the now-demolished Wardrobe ...
The 1974 Tower of London bombing happened on 17 July 1974 with the explosion of a 10–14-pound (4.5–6.4 kg) bomb in the White Tower of the Tower of London. [1] The blast left one person dead and injured 41 people, with many having lost limbs and suffering severe facial injuries.
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