The Flag Tower

The Flag Tower is an early 19th-century tower located in Alton Park, Farley. It is built from rock-faced ashlar with smooth-faced ashlar dressings and is designed in a castellated Gothic style. The tower has a square plan with cylindrical corner turrets and stands four storeys tall, featuring an off-set first floor, bands on the second and third floors, and a crenellated parapet with pseudo-machicolations. The design includes a single recessed bay flanked by the corner turrets, pointed windows with Gothic glazing bars and hood moulds, and slim rectangular loops in the turrets. The pointed first-floor door has three continuous orders and a hood mould, accessed by a flight of steps within a ground-floor forebuilding that has a central pointed entrance arch. This tower is part of the significant garden layout at Alton Towers, which is registered at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.