Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Tower.

Clock Tower

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1990
Type
Tower
Source
Cadw listing

Description

High Victorian Gothic 3-stage square tower with spire; open to ground floor. Snecked grey rubble with cream coloured freestone dressings facing the greater part of the top and bottom stages. Freestone quoins to the middle stage which also has diagonal bands of Mansfield Red stone. The crowning octagonal crocketed spire with stone finial and ironwork weathervane rises from the square bellstage with corner tourelles each with their own iron finials; foliated cornice and implied machicolations below the clock faces. Narrow, stepped, Gothic lights to staircase below. At each corner at the base are griffins seated on tiny marble colonnettes, The lower stage is splayed out with fishscale and crenellated cornice. Each side has a tall gable with heavily foliated finials and roundels with heraldic emblems. Hoodmoulds and rosettes to arches with impost bands and unpolished marble colonnettes and inner cusping; diagonal buttresses with gables and miniature tower like pinnacles. Stepped platform. Quadrapartite ribbed vault to open ground floor.

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