Found this pre-restoration picture on Stephen Craven's website. Stephen did the detailed architectural drawings prior to the tower's restoration.
Besides showing the basic completeness of the tower it is particularly useful right now as it shows areas where rainwater still penetrates below the drip cornice below the tank. That is very useful right now as work is about to begin which addresses, and hopefully cures, the problems.
What an improvement in the appearance of the stonework eh? People sometimes ask if we had it stone cleaned? We didn't - so why the great improvement? The sunshine helps of course but the individual stones appear cleaner. I wonder if it has something to do with the tank itself - rusty at the start and now painted so there is not an almost constant stream of rusty water coursing over it? That plus clean country air perhaps? Anyway, it is indeed a great improvement.
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