CLOCK TOWER IN PRESTON PARK

CLOCK TOWER IN PRESTON PARK, STANFORD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380948
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: CLOCK TOWER IN PRESTON PARK
Statutory Address:: CLOCK TOWER IN PRESTON PARK, STANFORD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380948
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: CLOCK TOWER IN PRESTON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: CLOCK TOWER IN PRESTON PARK, STANFORD AVENUE

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 IN PRESTON PARK, STANFORD AVENUE

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

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30719 06195

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3006 STANFORD AVENUE 577-1/12/867 (North side) Clock tower in Preston Park

II

Clock tower. Dated 1891 on the foundation stone to the west, and 1892 on an inscription to the south. Designed by FJC May for the Recreation Committee of Brighton Borough Council. Paid for by Councillor Edward White. Built by F Patching and Son. Red and buff terracotta, brick and stone, granite, copper, tiles. The tower is alternately square and octagonal in plan, and rests on a plinth of granite steps. The first stage is square, with a battered base of buff terracotta and aedicules to either side formed of columns of buff terracotta carrying an entablature with stone frieze and open pediment of red terracotta; date 1891 in a cartouche to the tympanum. Within each aedicule, a round-arched niche, the architrave having a Gibbs surround, heads to keystones and a polished granite panel below, except on the east side which has a flat-arched entrance, the door having ornate wrought-iron hinges, with a shell-niche above. The upper part has a reverse squinch at the corners in the form of consoles, making the transition to the second stage which has a red terracotta frieze of festoons, long sides to the cardinal directions with 3-light, segmental-arched blank tracery and a cartouche below flanked by seated putti; then a frieze of blank ogee tracery; then a third, clock stage with clocks on each face with a circular moulding and heraldic griffins to the lower corners holding shields with the initials EW, and festoons and pediment above; flanking the clock faces are corbelled, octagonal, panelled, domed pinnacles, perhaps incomplete; the 4th, octagonal, lantern stage is in timber with deep bracketed eaves to domed octagonal roof topped by a dated weather-vane.

Listing NGR: TQ3071906195

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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.