LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER

LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER, LIDGET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215049
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER
Statutory Address:: LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER, LIDGET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215049
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER, LIDGET STREET

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:: LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER, LIDGET STREET

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

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 11880 18051

Details

LIDGET STREET 1. 5113 (East Side) Lindley Lindley Clock Tower SE 1118 20/20 12.9.73. II* 2. 1900-2. Architect: Edgar Wood. Sculpture and copper roof by T Stirling Lee. Ashlar. Square plan. Octagonal copper pagoda roof. Diagonal corner buttresses bearing figures of angels near top, carried up to form pinnacles, gargoyles at eaves. Side staircase turret. One clock on each face. Arcade below eaves. Street facade has centre door with lintel ramped upwards to central sculpted figure: smaller figures at sides, and inscription above door reading "This tower was erected by James Nield Sykes Esq JP of Field Head, Lindley, for the benefit of his native village in 1902." Steps. Above door sculpted figure under and small paired windows either side with art nouveau tracery. Balcony corbelled out below clock. Edgar Wood was married to a Sykes. The clock tower is one of his most important works.

Listing NGR: SE1188018051

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Legacy System number:: 340126
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.