Kimmeridge Bay & Clavell Tower, Jurassic Coast, Dorset, UK By Drone - 4K

Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset with its famous restored 'Clavell Tower'.

Dismantled stone by stone in 2008 from its perilous clifftop perch, Clavell Tower - a 19th-century folly immortalised by Thomas Hardy and the crime novelist PD James.
The turret above Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset was threatened by shoreline erosion and was in imminent danger of toppling into the churning ocean below. It has been saved by being rebuilt 25 metres (82ft) inland. (You can see the old foundations in this video.)

The monument was constructed for the Rev John Richards Clavell in 1830 as an observatory and folly, with four storeys, including a basement, and a Tuscan-style colonnade.

It was used by coastguards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but fell into disuse and became derelict after being gutted by fire in the 1930s.

Hardy was a frequent visitor. He courted his first love, Eliza Nicholl, there and included a sketch of the tower opposite the title page in his Wessex Poems. Also known as the Tower of the Winds, the building was the scene of a murder in James's mystery The Black Tower. The author was a prominent supporter of the campaign to save the building.

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