Clock Tower

Date:
9 Sep 2001
Location:
Clock Tower, The Square, Mere, Salisbury, Wiltshire, BA12 6DL
Reference:
IOE01/02472/04
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ST 8032-8132 MERE THE SQUARE (west side)

6/76 Clock Tower

GV II

Clock tower. Dated 1868. Rock faced limestone, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof, wooden turret and ventilating louvre. Square plan with one offset diagonal buttress, pyramidal roof broached to octagonal stage with clock on two faces, further small slated pyramid to louvred crowning feature with weather- cock. Plain plank doors to moulded arch in east front with drip to leaf stops under panel 'Albert Edward 1868' and the Prince of Wales feathers. Blind lancet north and south, leaded glazed to west; corbel table cornice to main roof.

Small gabled lucarne each face of roof slope. Holds an important position in centre of former market place, on the site occupied by the Market House until 1863. The present clock tower was given to the town by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.

Listing NGR: ST8124732362

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0485 IOE Records taken by G M Cotton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr G.M. Cotton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Cotton, G.M.

Rights Holder: Cotton, G.M.

Keywords

Ashlar, Limestone, Welsh Slate, Wood, Victorian Clock Tower, Unassigned, Tower, Building, Weather Vane