Clock Tower in Queen's Park is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Clock tower.
Clock Tower in Queen's Park
- WRENN ID
- mired-arch-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower in Queen's Park, Victoria Avenue, Crewe, CW2 7SE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 687 557
- Coordinates
- 53.09843, -2.46761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower in Queen's Park was built in 1888 and is made of red sandstone, brick, and timber. It features a square stone base with projecting angles, a moulded plinth, and recessed rectangular panels on all four sides. The south-facing panel includes an inscription and the date. Above this, there are equilateral triangular panels with ball flower finials, which display the heads of Queen Victoria on the north side and members of the Board of the London and North Western Railway Company.
The tower rises from a sandstone section with chamfered quoins and carved inset arms above each head, transitioning to brickwork that has vertical sinkings on the faces and quoins, with stone bands at three-course intervals. A projecting stone reeded cap supports the four-faced clock, which has timber-framed dials and equilateral pediments above each clock face. The tower is topped with an elaborate wrought iron support for a weather vane. This clock tower was donated by the employees of the railway company.
Local climate
Clock Tower in Queen's Park receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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