Smeaton's Tower administrator Sir John Barrow. Smeaton's Tower has been a Grade I-listed building since 1954. It is open for visitors, who may climb 93 steps, including steep ladders, to the lantern room, and observe Plymouth Sound and the city. Smeaton's Tower Smeaton's Tower is a memorial to celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse. A major step forward in lighthouse design, Smeaton's structure was in use from 1759 to 1877, until erosion of the ledge it was built upon forced new construction. The tower was largely dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth,
John Smeaton Academy grade 4 – equivalent to the old 'C' grade – in English and maths respectively. John Smeaton Academy John Smeaton Academy is an academy and Sixth Form in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The school educates children aged 11–18 from across Leeds and its surrounding villages including Scholes, Cross Gates, Barwick-in-Elmet, Pendas Fields and Swarcliffe. The academy is part of United Learning, a national group of schools whose motto is "'the best in everyone'." As part of United Learning, the academy is committed to an ethos of "'the best in everyone"'. This is underpinned by six core values: The school became