A tall, elegantly proportioned bell tower is all that remains of the Franciscan friary founded here in 1257 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. The rest of the friary buildings — church, cloister, infirmary — were carted off as building stone within a few decades, but the tower was left standing, apparently because someone in town thought it was beautiful.
It sits in a small park on the north side of the centre, just off Queen's Road. There is no charge to walk up to it.