Jubilee Clock Tower and Attached Walls and Railings
JUBILEE CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129198
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Jubilee Clock Tower and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- JUBILEE CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129198
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Jubilee Clock Tower and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- JUBILEE CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, FRONT STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JUBILEE CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4439059738
Details
ST 45 NW
8/79
CHURCHILL C.P.
FRONT STREET (east side)
Jubilee Clock Tower and attached Walls and Railings
G.V.
II
Clock Tower, Walls and Railings. Dated 1897 (on inscription), restored 1977.
By Foster and Wood of Bristol. Squared and coursed rockfaced sandstone with
ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Free-form Gothic style. 2 storeys.
Square on plan with set back buttresses to 1st floor string course which develop
from consoles into clasping buttresses which in turn carry the pyramidal roof.
Doorway to south face with 2 trefoil-cusped side lights under paterae frieze.
Projecting, buttressed drinking fountain niche with cast iron furnishings to east
face. Cast iron clock faces to each facade, inscription on string course below
bell stage which has 3 cusped and panelled tracery lights in paterae surrounds to
each facade. Bracketted eaves cornice. Attached walls, 0.5 metres high, with
1 metre piers with coved tops at regular intervals. Plain spear railings with
wrought iron decorative panels at intervals. 1 similar patterned gate to south
side of enclosure. The Clock Tower, which forms an important visual element at
the apex of Front Street, was erected by Sidney Hill of Langford House (q.v.).
Listing NGR: ST4439059738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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