Clock Tower, Cardiff Castle

Clock Tower, Cardiff Castle.

“It was designed by William Burges in 1866 as part of a scheme to renovate the Castle’s south wall and work began in 1869. The tower is built on the foundations of a Roman bastion at the South West angle of the medieval curtain wall. The faces of the clock are flanked by 10ft (3m) tall statues representing the principal planets with their respective zodiac on the pedestals. The tower’s bell is a half-scale model of the one in Victoria Tower, Westminster.”

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