Great Tom

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)