Bell Rock Lighthouse

Bell Rock Lighthouse

Natural Philosophy

By the cliffside gate of the Cathedral, there are two stone sights embedded in the wall, with the western one pointing to the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Depending on the weather conditions, the lighthouse may be visible as a small white dot on the horizon. The Bell Rock lighthouse is the world’s oldest working sea-washed lighthouse (built out at sea, often on a rock or reef) and was built from 1807 – 1811 by Robert Stevenson and John Rennie. The Bell Rock, also known as the Inchcape Rock, is a treacherous sunken reef that was one of the chief impediments to the free navigation of that coast and is the subject of a poem named Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey, which tells a story about the consequences of ‘Sir Ralph the Rover’ removing a warning bell from the rock.

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