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. Jewel House VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Among the
magnificent Crown Practical Information
Jewels is the Scepter Tower Hill EC3. Tel 0870-756
with the Cross 7070. Open 10am–5:30pm Sun
(1660), which & Mon; 9am–5:30pm Tue–Sat;
contains the world’s closes 4:30pm in winter. Last
largest diamond. adm: 30 mins before closing.
Closed Jan 1, Dec 24–26. &
7 limited, except Jewel House.
. White Tower Ceremony of the Keys: 9:30pm
When the tower was finished daily. ∑ hrp.org.uk
in 1097, it was London’s tallest
building at 27 m (90 ft) high. Transport
1 Tower Hill; Docklands Light
Railway to Tower Gateway;
London Bridge; Fenchurch St.
@ 15, 42, 78, 100.
4 from Westminster to
Tower Pier.

. Chapel of St. John
This austere yet beautiful
Romanesque chapel is a
Thames particularly fine example
of Norman architecture.

Traitors’ Gate
The infamous entrance
was used for prisoners
brought from trial in
Westminster Hall.

Bloody Tower
Explored in a display here,
Edward IV’s two sons were
put in the Bloody Tower
by their uncle, Richard of
Gloucester, in 1483. The
princes, depicted here by
John Millais (1829–96),
disappeared mysteriously
and their uncle became King
Richard III later that year. In
1674, the skeletons of two
children were found nearby.

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