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    Are there any other interesting historical buildings that lean, apart from the tower in Pisa?

    Question #55353. Asked by tamarindgh. (Feb 21 05 12:55 PM)


    SOTHC

    		Not historical but http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/QTVR/Yukon/GunsAndAmmo.html has one

    Feb 21 05, 1:05 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		The spire on Chesterfield cathedral has got a fairly noticeable tilt to it.

    Feb 21 05, 1:22 PM
    Flynn_17

    		That's Chester, isn't it, Mags?

    Feb 21 05, 1:36 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		No, Chesterfield.

    Feb 21 05, 1:37 PM
    Flynn_17

    		Yeah, you're right. *confused* And would that be the Chesterfield in Derbyshire?

    Feb 21 05, 1:43 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		That would indeed be the Chesterfield in Derbyshire! ;)

    Feb 21 05, 1:45 PM
    TabbyTom

    		Then there's Temple Church in Bristol.

    http://www.geocities.com/churchcrawler/bristol/temple.htm

    Feb 21 05, 1:57 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Chesterfield is twisted rather than leaning - it is a member of the Association of Twisted Spires of Europe. Most of the European ones were built like that, but Chesterfield's wasn't.

    Feb 21 05, 3:53 PM
    tamarindgh

    		The Giddy House at Port Royal in Jamaica leans at a 45 degree angle!
    http://www.infomotions.com/gallery/jamaica/Pages/DSCN1104.shtml

    Feb 21 05, 4:36 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		It alwasy looked a bit bent to me when I went through there on a train.

    Feb 21 05, 5:27 PM
    gmackematix

    		Bridgnorth is a town on two levels joined by the steepest railway in England and its castle slopes at a greater angle than the Pisa counterpart:
    http://www.mythstories.com/hlf/bridgnorth/bridcast.jpg

    Feb 21 05, 5:47 PM
    Buck540

    		That's a castle?

    It looks more like a huge rock...

    Feb 21 05, 6:20 PM
    gmackematix

    		It's made of sandstone, was built in 1101 and hasn't been used for a few centuries so it would look a little dilapidated.

    Feb 21 05, 6:28 PM

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