Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Bell Tower
Visitors enter the Tower by the Middle Tower and the Byward Tower, in the southwest
corner. Two of the first victims of the Reformation - Thomas More and John Fisher -
were incarcerated nearby in the
Bell Tower
, from whose dinky wooden belfry a bell still
signals the curfew hour (and used to toll to signal an execution). More was initially
allowed writing materials, but later they were withdrawn; Fisher was kept in worse
conditions (“I decay forthwith, and fall into coughs and diseases of my body, and
cannot keep myself in health”) and was so weak that he had to be carried to the scaffold
on Tower Hill. The 20-year-old future Queen Elizabeth I arrived here in 1554, while
her half-sister Queen Mary tried to find incriminating evidence against her. Catholic
Mass was performed daily in Elizabeth's cell for the two months of her imprisonment,
but she refused to be converted.
Former
Trinity House
Tower Gateway
Former PLA
Headquarters
N
Tower Hill
Trinity
Square
Gardens
Roman
Wall
Wakefield
Gardens
Site of
Scaffold
B Y W
A R
D
Mercantile Marine
Memorial
Moat
All Hallows-
by-the-Tower
Ticket
O
ce
Martin
To we r
Devereux
To we r
Devereux
To we r
Moat
Waterloo Block
(Crown Jewels)
Welcome
Centre
St Peter-
ad-Vincula
St Peter-
ad-Vincula
Constable
To we r
Constable
To we r
Beauchamp
To we r
Beauchamp
To we r
Site of Scaffold
Fusiliers'
Museum
Moat
Towe r
Green
White
To we r
Broad
Arrow Tower
Broad
Arrow Tower
Shop
Middle
To we r
Queen's
House
Bloody Tower
Byward Tower
Café
Wakefield
To we r
Shop &
Audioguides
Lanthorn
To we r
Bell Tower
Salt
To we r
St Thomas's
To we r
Tower
Millennium
Pier
Traitors' Gate
ST KATHARINE'S WAY
Café
0
100
yards
TOWER OF LONDON
Tower Bridge
