Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Clock tower.
Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pavement-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Clock tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PLYMOUTH
SX4754 DERRY'S CROSS, Plymouth 740-1/57/362 Clock Tower 01/05/75
GV II
Free-standing clock tower. Plymouth limestone ashlar and darker granite bands; weathered stone roof surmounted by an octagonal cast-iron spire with weather vane. Square plan. EXTERIOR: slightly tapered tower with moulded plinth to pedestal base with carved trefoil-arched drinking-fountain niche central to each of 3 sides, the 4th side with a similar doorway and with trailing carved detail within its half-domed niche. Cusped and carved hoods over shields to each side mid-way up the tower. Machicolated cornice below narrower clock stage with turned corner shafts flanked by carved detail and carved and moulded eaves cornice. The bellcote has trefoil arcade with pierced spandrels on turned shafts; the spire has similar pierced detail. This building, and the Bank (qv) are the only buildings in this immediate part of Plymouth to survive the Blitz. To many of the citizens this clock seemed to be a symbol of defiance against the enemy and it appeared to offer a promise that Plymouth would rise again from the ashes. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 667).
Listing NGR: SX4758154384
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