Harkness Tower
Harkness Tower is a masonry tower at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Part of the Collegiate Gothic Memorial Quadrangle complex completed in 1922, it is named for Charles William Harkness, brother of Yale's largest benefactor, Edward Harkness.
Harkness Tower
Influence[edit]
Harkness Tower was the first couronne ("crown") tower in English Perpendicular Gothic style built in the modern era.[1][4] James Gamble Rogers, who designed the tower and many of Yale's Collegiate Gothic structures, said it was inspired by the 15th-century Boston Stump, the 272-foot (83 m) tower of the parish church of St Botolph in Boston, Lincolnshire[1] and tallest parish church tower in England. Rogers also based some details on the 16th-century tower of St Giles' Church in Wrexham, Wales, where Elihu Yale is buried. In turn, Harkness Tower has been identified as the direct influence for the tower of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton, Ontario.[5]
The tower's image was adopted by the Yale Herald, a weekly student newspaper, for its masthead.