Clock Tower

The Clock Tower, built between 1866 and 1868 by H J Lockwood of Bradford for George Percy, the second Earl of Beverley, is a Grade II listed structure located on the west side of Airmyn High Street, standing on the riverbank at the corner of the main street. This Gothic Revival style clock tower is constructed from banded yellow and pink sandstone, featuring painted timber shafts on the second stage and a Welsh slate roof.

The tower consists of three stages. The first stage includes a chamfered plinth and angle buttresses with offsets, topped with gabled coping that features kneeling angels holding shields. The entrance on the east side is accessed by three stone steps leading to a pointed moulded arch with shafted responds, which is adorned with an elaborate crocketed gabled hoodmould and a finial. The entrance doors are two-fold board doors with ornate wrought-iron strapwork. An inscription on the south side reads: "GEORGE EARL OF BEVERLEY 1865."

The second stage has angle-shafts with foliate capitals and features a pair of pointed lighting slits on the south and east sides, with one blind slit on the south and the others glazed. A foliate corbel-table is present as well. The top stage is characterized by pairs of angle shafts with moulded capitals flanking large recessed pointed panels that have moulded surrounds. These panels contain central circular openings, with clock faces on the south and east sides, a 20th-century window on the north, and a boarded-up opening on the west. The gables above feature pierced quatrefoils and crocketed coping.

The four-sided spire is decorated with slates, topped with a wrought-iron finial and half-hipped lucarnes that have shafted trefoiled openings and slatted louvres. Inside, a ladder of built-in iron rungs provides access to the top stage and spire, and the clock and chimes are in working order. The tower was built to commemorate the Earl's elevation to Duke of Northumberland in 1865, with construction starting in 1866 and completing two years later.