Clock Tower
CLOCK TOWER, DERRY'S CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130056
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER, DERRY'S CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130056
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER, DERRY'S CROSS
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:
- CLOCK TOWER, DERRY'S CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4758154384
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4754 DERRY'S CROSS, Plymouth 740-1/57/362 Clock Tower 01/05/75
GV II
Free-standing clock tower. Plymouth limestone ashlar and darker granite bands; weathered stone roof surmounted by an octagonal cast-iron spire with weather vane. Square plan. EXTERIOR: slightly tapered tower with moulded plinth to pedestal base with carved trefoil-arched drinking-fountain niche central to each of 3 sides, the 4th side with a similar doorway and with trailing carved detail within its half-domed niche. Cusped and carved hoods over shields to each side mid-way up the tower. Machicolated cornice below narrower clock stage with turned corner shafts flanked by carved detail and carved and moulded eaves cornice. The bellcote has trefoil arcade with pierced spandrels on turned shafts; the spire has similar pierced detail. This building, and the Bank (qv) are the only buildings in this immediate part of Plymouth to survive the Blitz. To many of the citizens this clock seemed to be a symbol of defiance against the enemy and it appeared to offer a promise that Plymouth would rise again from the ashes. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 667).
Listing NGR: SX4758154384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473325
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 667
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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