Clock tower, SW17
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Clock tower, SW17
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 30 Nov 2009
St Benedict’s Clock Tower was the subject of a recent pound for pound scheme, with restoration works including timber repairs and renewal of lead cupola being half met by a conservation grant from Wandsworth Borough Council. The tower originally adorned St Joseph's Roman Catholic college, built in 1888. In 1897 this became the Tooting Home workhouse, and then in 1930 St Benedict's Hospital, which closed in 1981 http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wandsworth/Wandsworth.shtml.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.425317
Longitude
-0.157462