Clock Tower, Custom House Quay, Greenock

The Clock Tower at Custom House Quay in Greenock is a cast and wrought iron structure dating from around 1860. It features a Corinthian column with a rope-moulded band around its middle, which stands on a square cast-iron base. This column supports a square entablature that houses a four-faced clock, topped by an octagonal Gothic lantern adorned with a crown, bell, and weathervane.

The base includes a plain plinth, while the panels above display lion head faucets set in stop-chamfered inset panels, each with basins. The Greenock coat-of-arms is prominently featured in a circular cartouche at the top, with low relief thistles in the upper corners of the surround. Other faces of the tower display a crown flanked by the initials 'VR'. Above these panels, a cornice decorated with fleuron ornamentation leads to a tapering plain octagonal section. The base is marked with the name Rankin and Blackmore, Engineers, from the Eagle Foundry in Greenock.