Clock Tower
CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347055
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347055
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Airmyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 72497 25530
Details
AIRMYN HIGH STREET SE 72 NW (west side) 1/101 Clock Tower GV II Clock tower. 1866-8 by H J Lockwood of Bradford for George Percy, second Earl of Beverley. Banded yellow and pink sandstone, painted timber shafts to second stage, Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. Square on plan, stands on riverbank at corner of main street. 3 stages. First stage: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with offsets and gabled coping with kneeling angels holding shields. Entrance to east side has 3 stone steps to pointed moulded arch with shafted responds beneath elaborate crocketed gabled hoodmould with finial; 2-fold board doors with ornate wrought-iron strapwork. South side bears inscription: GEORGE EARL OF BEVERLEY 1865 Second stage: angle-shafts with foliate capitals; pair of pointed lighting slits to south and east sides, one to south blind, others glazed. Foliate corbel-table. Top stage has pairs of angle shafts with moulded capitals flanking large recessed pointed panels with moulded surrounds containing central circular openings, those to south and east with clockfaces, that to north with C20 window, that to west boarded-up; gables above have pierced quatrefoils and crocketed coping. 4-sided spire has decorative slates, wrought-iron finial and half-hipped lucarnes with shafted trefoiled openings and slatted louvres. Interior: ladder of built-in iron rungs provides access to top stage and spire; clock and chimes in working order. Built to commemorate the Earl becoming the Duke of Northumberland in 1865; started 1866 and completed 2 years later. D Galloway, Airmyn In Days Gone By, Vol 1, 1984, pp 12-13; ibid, Vol 2, 1985, pp 15-18.
Listing NGR: SE7249725530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164862
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Galloway, D, Airmyn in Days Gone By, (1985), 15-18
Galloway, D, Airmyn in Days Gone By, (1985), 12-13
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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