CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS

CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS, WEST WALKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290747
Date first listed:: 07-May-1975
List Entry Name:: CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS
Statutory Address:: CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS, WEST WALKS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290747
Date first listed:: 07-May-1975
List Entry Name:: CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS, WEST WALKS ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CLOCK TOWER IN PUBLIC GARDENS, WEST WALKS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dorchester
National Grid Reference:: SY 68938 90396

Details

WEST WALKS ROAD 1. 5l9l (West Side) Clock Tower in Public Gardens. SY 6890 7/308 II 2. l905. Cast iron on moulded granite plinth. Octagonal shaft each side, with 2 tiers of moulded panels and quatrefoil clustered colonnettes at corners,linked to each other by arches of drop tracery. Clock stage is 4-sided (4 clocks), the upper corners decorated with sphinxbusts on consoles. Entablature, cardinal sides crowned by small pediments. Onion dome, fish scales and elaborate weathervane. Cardinal sides have inscriptions at base level: "This clock and tower were presented to the Borough of Dorchester by Charles Hansford Esq A.D. 1905". Above this 2 cartouches placed above each other, lower with relief head of Charles Hansford, upper with relief of Borough Arms".

Listing NGR: SY6893890396

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Legacy System number:: 394585
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.