Water Tower At Hollymoor Hospital

The water tower at Hollymoor Hospital, built in 1905 by Martin and Martin of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylum Committee of Visitors, is a Grade II listed structure. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings, topped with a copper-covered dome beneath a lantern. The tower is six stages high, square in shape, featuring shallow clasping buttresses and a central pilaster on each wall face. Each stage has two tall slit windows, separated by the central pilasters. The fifth stage includes miniature pediments as hoods over the openings, while the sixth stage has pairs of coupled lights with flat traceried heads. There are ashlar bands between the fifth and sixth stages, and a projecting cornice separates the sixth stage from the parapet, which features a segmental pediment at the center of each face above the ends of the central pilasters. The clasping buttresses are topped with terracotta ball finials. The structure culminates in a copper-covered stilted dome with an octagonal lantern beneath an ogee roof.