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It stands in a commanding spot on Stag Hill - so named because the Kings of England used to hunt here - and its solid red brick outline is visible for miles around; it immediately overlooks the University of Surrey beneath it. Its bricks are made from clay taken from the hill on which it stands.

The tower is 160 feet high, and contains ten bells, cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which is best known for creating the original Liberty Bell, and Big Ben for the famous clock tower in Westminster, London.

At the top of the tower stands a 15 foot guilded angel, which turns in the wind. Inside, the cathedral appears to be filled with light, with pale Somerset sandstone pillars and white ItalianThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer marbleThis page is about the metamorphic rock. For the game with little glass spheres see marbles. Marble is metamorphosed limestone, composed of fairly pure calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, Ca C O). It is extensively used for sculpture, as an floors.

Writing in 19321932 is the leap year starting on Friday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 3 British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees Jan, Sir Edward Maufe said: ‘The ideal has been to produce a design, definitely of our own time, yet in the line of the great English Cathedrals; to build anew on tradition, to rely on proportion, mass, volume and line rather than on elaboration and ornament.'

The classic horror film The OmenThe Omen is a 1976 horror film directed by Richard Donner and starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, and Leo McKern. The theme is centered around the end times prophecies that were circulating was filmed there, the golden wind-vane on top of the cathedral added specifically for the film. The members of the church liked it so much they requested for it to become a permanent feature.

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