It's all very well to make fun of this but spare a thought for the navvies and labourers who had to build it. Like, every day you add more bricks, making you a little bit further away from the starting point - and the stone quarry. So you have to hump the big slabs further each day. You're just not in the mood for the foreman having a whip round with the lash because you're fitting in a lot fewer slabs per day than when you started 100 years ago.