Clavell Tower-3

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Clavell Tower at Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset was built in 1830 by Reverend John Richards Clavell of Smedmore as an observatory and folly, with three storeys and a distinctive Tuscan colonnade. Thomas Hardy courted Eliza Bright Nicols here and it inspired P. D. James’s novel, The Black Tower. It was gutted by fire in the 1930s and was renovated with cash raised from an appeal in 2004.

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Size: 3500px × 5228px
Location: Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset
Photo credit: © John Wade / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: bay, clavell, dorset, kimmeridge, tower