Clock Tower and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Clock tower, war memorial. 1 related planning application.
Clock Tower and Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- iron-belfry-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Clock tower, war memorial
- Address
- Clock Tower and Boundary Wall, Fore Street, St. Day, TR16 5JX
- OS grid reference
- SW 729 425
- Coordinates
- 50.23899, -5.18487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower and boundary wall, built around 1830 and slightly altered, are made of coursed dressed granite and feature a wooden bellcote on the roof. The tower has a square plan with a rectangular porch on the south side, designed in an Early English style. It includes chamfered two-centred arched openings and hoodmoulds. The structure consists of three stages, each set back above a weathered offset.
The porch features a large arched outer doorway with ornamental wrought-iron gates, small windows on each side, and an embattled parapet over a weathered band. Inside, the original inner doorway has been replaced by a granite war memorial inscribed with the words: "PASS NOT IN SORROW BUT WITH PRIDE AND MAY WE LIVE AS NOBLY AS THEY DIED 1914-1918," followed by 39 names and an additional 17 names for 1939-1945. The first stage has blind arched doorways on the sides and rear.
The upper stages are uniform on all sides: the second stage has windows with Y-tracery, while the third stage features small coupled lancets under a square hoodmould, and a large clock face above. The top of the tower has an embattled parapet and a tall octagonal bellcote in a matching style, complete with a swept cap and weathervane.
Surrounding the tower is a boundary wall made of large punch-dressed granite blocks, arranged in sections approximately 3 metres long, with concave coping between short square monolithic piers that have square caps. These piers are linked by twisted iron rails, and there is a wrought-iron gate in the centre of the front. A modern public lavatory built in the enclosure to the rear is not included in this description.
The tower, located on a site known in the 18th century as St Day Green, serves as a prominent focal point in this small town.
Local climate
Clock Tower and Boundary Wall 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 greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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