Great Tom is the hour bell in Tom Tower, at Christ Church, Oxford.
Great Tom can also mean:
- Great Tom of Lincoln, the hour bell at Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln.
- Great Tom of Westminster, the hour bell in a now demolished clock tower at the Palace of Westminster, London, eventually replaced by Big Ben.
- Great Tom, the hour bell in the South West Tower of St Pauls Cathedral, London.
Famous quotes containing the word tom:
“New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)