Lindley Clock Tower

LIDGET STREET 1. 5113 (East Side) Lindley Lindley Clock Tower SE 1118 20/20 12.9.73. II* 2. 1900-2. Architect: Edgar Wood. Sculpture and copper roof by T Stirling Lee. Ashlar. Square plan. Octagonal copper pagoda roof. Diagonal corner buttresses bearing figures of angels near top, carried up to form pinnacles, gargoyles at eaves. Side staircase turret. One clock on each face. Arcade below eaves. Street facade has centre door with lintel ramped upwards to central sculpted figure: smaller figures at sides, and inscription above door reading "This tower was erected by James Nield Sykes Esq JP of Field Head, Lindley, for the benefit of his native village in 1902." Steps. Above door sculpted figure under and small paired windows either side with art nouveau tracery. Balcony corbelled out below clock. Edgar Wood was married to a Sykes. The clock tower is one of his most important works.

Listing NGR: SE1188018051