Clock Tower in Public Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Clock tower.
Clock Tower in Public Gardens
- WRENN ID
- fallow-moat-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower in Public Gardens, West Walks Road, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 689 903
- Coordinates
- 50.71235, -2.44131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower in the Public Gardens was built in 1905 and is a Grade II listed structure. It is made of cast iron and stands on a moulded granite plinth. The tower has an octagonal shaft with two tiers of moulded panels, featuring quatrefoil clustered colonnettes at the corners, which are connected by arches of drop tracery. The clock stage has four sides, each displaying a clock, and the upper corners are adorned with sphinx busts on consoles. An entablature crowns the cardinal sides, each topped with small pediments. The structure is capped with an onion dome, decorated with fish scales and an elaborate weathervane. At the base level of the cardinal sides, there are inscriptions stating, "This clock and tower were presented to the Borough of Dorchester by Charles Hansford Esq A.D. 1905". Above this, two cartouches are placed one above the other, with the lower cartouche featuring a relief head of Charles Hansford and the upper one displaying the relief of the Borough Arms.
Local climate
Clock Tower in Public Gardens receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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