The Clock Tower

The Clock Tower was built in 1854 as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington, originally positioned at the southern approach to London Bridge. Designed by Arthur Ashpital, it is a square stone structure of three stages, with the lower two stages solid and the upper stage open. Between 1867 and 1868, the tower was dismantled and relocated to its current site by Mowlem and Burt. The base has a 2-centred arched doorway on each face, topped with an ogee canopy within a square frame. Above a carved band course, the second stage features a 2-light segmental arched window accompanied by a circular window, both set under a crocketted gable. The top stage consists of four piers supporting 2-centred cusped arches set within ogee canopies, which in turn support an ogee-shaped cupola replacing a former spire. Double angle buttresses with gabled crocketted tops rise on the exterior.