Clock Tower and Attached Railings
CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, TOWER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195852
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, TOWER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195852
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, TOWER SQUARE
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 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, TOWER SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85934 51246
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ85SE TOWER SQUARE, Tunstall 613-1/2/167 Clock Tower and attached railings 29/10/86
GV II
Clock tower. 1893, paid for by public subscription in commemoration of the Smith-Child family. Yellow terracotta in imitation of ashlar masonry. Square chamfered pier on wider base with gableted pilaster buttresses. Small shouldered archway to doorway giving access to stair in one facade, the others having recessed arched panels bearing inscriptions of donors names, and facing the town hall, a bust set in a foiled niche with ornate hood mould over. The clock itself is set in a square stage with gableted cap surmounted by a small fleche. The tower is raised on steps and surrounded by cast-iron railings, cast in Barnstaple.
Listing NGR: SJ8593451246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384504
- 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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