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,
Sept-Îles lighthouse a French lighthouse. The archipelago of Sept-Îles has been a bird sanctuary since 1912. The Sept-Îles lighthouse was one of the last French lighthouses to be manned, and only became automated at the end of August 2007. Sept-Îles lighthouse The Sept-Îles lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Perros-Guirec, (Côtes-d'Armor) France, located on the "Île aux moines", an island of the Sept-Îles archipelago in the English Channel. The island is accessible but the lighthouse is closed to the public. The first lighthouse, a round tower, was illuminated in May 1835, and then replaced in 1854 by a square tower 16 ft