CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL

CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL, FISHERTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260194
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1972
List Entry Name:: CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL
Statutory Address:: CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL, FISHERTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260194
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1972
List Entry Name:: CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL
Statutory Address 1:: CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL, FISHERTON 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:: CLOCK TOWER INCLUDING PART OF FORMER COUNTY JAIL, FISHERTON STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Salisbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 14202 29946

Details

FISHERTON STREET 1. 1594 (South Side) Clock Tower including part of former County Jail SU 1429 NW 3/467

II 2. 1892. Gothic clock tower. Ashlar with bands pointed niche and 2 lancets to upper register. Buttressed base with niche to street face and inscription. Clock faces flanked by columns, pierced parapet, pyramid roof with weathervane. The rectangular ashlar base was formerly part of the County Jail dating from 1631 with Georgian alterations. 2 small rectangular barred windows to east. Door inserted to street. On west wall a plaque, with shaped top, has relief carving of 3 leg irons with swagged chains.

Listing NGR: SU1420229946

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Legacy System number:: 319140
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.