Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — A Leaning Tower in England. [ARTICLE]

A Leaning Tower in England.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa has a rival in the Temple Tower of Bristol, in England. It is a square tower of early Gothic architecture. All its parts still preserve their normal relative positions without cracks or fissures. The tower, which is about 115 feet high, is five feet out of perpendicular at the summit There are no records to show whether the inclination was part of the architect’s design, or whether it is the result of an earthquake or of slow changes in the inclination of the soil. For many yenrs there has been no change in the slope of the tower.