The Clocktower, High Street, St Albans,

The Clocktower, High Street, St Albans, AL3 4EL

The only surviving medieval belfry in England. It was built by 1405 by the people of St Albans as a symbol of resistance against the power of the Abbot of St Albans by allowing the town to ring its own hours and, until 1863, a curfew. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument