The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Clock tower. 1 related planning application.
The Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- cold-wattle-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- The Clock Tower, Bath Road, Atworth, SN12 8HW
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 659
- Coordinates
- 51.39279, -2.19882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower is a clock tower built in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and also serves as a war memorial. It is constructed of rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate gabled roof. The tower has two stages, with a square lower stage. On the west side, there is a Maltese cross that includes a relief-carved profile of Victoria along with the dates of her reign, and a plaque commemorating the Second World War is located below it. The north side features a First World War memorial with a segmental pediment. An inscription on the east side notes the tower's erection in 1887. The south side has a chamfered pointed doorway with a planked door that has ornamental hinges. The offset bellcote includes chamfered round-arched openings on all sides, and there are clock faces on both the east and west sides. A weathervane marked with "VR" is also present. The funding for the tower was raised by subscription, with Mr. Fuller of Neston Park being the main contributor.
Local climate
The Clock Tower receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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