Clock Tower
Clock Tower, Fore Street, Redruth
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253301
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Clock Tower, Fore Street, Redruth
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253301
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Clock Tower, Fore Street, Redruth
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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, Fore Street, Redruth
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Redruth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 69915 42029
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21 July 2022 to update the name and address, amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SW 64 SE
11/273
REDRUTH
FORE STREET (south side)
Clock Tower
GV
II
Clock tower and lock-up. 1828, altered 1836, rebuilt and raised 1900. Granite ashlar. Square in plan. Now four stages; the ground floor has diagonal buttresses and a large two-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround and hoodmould; each succeeding stage is slightly set back above a weathered band; the second stage has a two-centred arched window with hoodmould; the third stage has coupled round-headed lancets under a hoodmould, and newer masonry beginning above this; the tall fourth stage has smaller coupled lancets under a hoodmould, a large clock face above this, and slightly over-sailing embattled parapet above a band; a weather vane is mounted on the roof. The lower half of the left-hand side and rear are covered by adjoining buildings, otherwise all other sides resemble the front.
HISTORY: built in 1828 to replace an earlier clock tower, altered 1836, raised in1900 by one storey and the original top placed above the new section. It is said that Trounson’s store, which had been built in 1869 and extended in 1890, had blocked the view of the clock for miners living in the East End part of the town; the raised clock tower meant that the miners could see the time. A lock-up existed under the clock from 1841-51. The open arches at ground level were closed-in for use as police cells in 1841, and this lock-up existed until 1851; the doorways beneath the clock tower are surviving but one is blocked. Pevsner observed that the clock tower ‘was like a Cornish version of Palazzo Vecchio tower’.
Listing NGR: SW6991542029
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436475
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Information on the history of the clock tower, accessed 24 November 2021 from https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO24817&resourceID=1020
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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