Clock Tower at Filgrave Church of England First School is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Tower.
Clock Tower at Filgrave Church of England First School
- WRENN ID
- outer-gutter-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Clock Tower at Filgrave Church of England First School, Tyringham and Filgrave
- OS grid reference
- SP 870 482
- Coordinates
- 52.12555, -0.73015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower at Filgrave Church of England First School is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1938 to commemorate the Coronation of George VI. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the tower is square and made of brick with stone bands. It features battered sides and diminishes in stages. The ground floor has a stepped semi-circular arched opening and a plaque on the interior wall. The high second stage includes a clock facing the road, with an arrowslit above it. The third stage has an open arch for the bell facing the road, with clock faces on the sides. The fourth stage contains arched openings for the bells on the sides. At the top, there is a small hipped roof covered in pantiles, topped with a copper acorn finial.
Local climate
Clock Tower at Filgrave Church of England First School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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